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THE 

HOLY    WAR, 

MADE     BY 

S    H    A    D    D    A    I 

UPON 

D  I  A  B  0  L  U  S, 

FOR  THE   REGAINING  OF  THE 

Metropolis  of  the  WORLD; 

OR, 

THE   LOSING  AND  TAKING  AGAIN   OF  THE 

Town   of  M  ANSOUL 


By  J  O  H  N .  B  U  N  Y  A  % 

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AUTHOR  OF   THE    PILGRIM'S   PROGR!  5;8 


I  have  ufed  Similitudes.     Ho  sea,  xJi.  10. 

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PORTSMOUTH,    New-Hampshij 
Printed    by   JOHN MELCHER,   and    fop 

OFFICE    IN    MARKET-STREET   .'    Alf<?,    FOR 

AT   THE   BOOK-STORES    O  F  DAVID    WEST, 
AND  OF  JOHN  WEST,   IN  BOSTO 

I794. 


K  44  1  U-i 


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TO  THE 

E     A     D     E 


,rT^IS  flrange  to  me,  that  they  $at  love  to  tell 

X       Things  done  of  old,  yea>  and  that  do  excel 
Their  equals  in  hiftoriology, 
Speak  not  of  Manfoul's  wars  ;  but  let  them  lye 
Dead,  like  old  fables,  or  fuch  worthlefs  things, 
That  to  the  reader  no  advantage  brings  : 
"  When  men,  let  them  make  what  they  will  their  owe, 
«'  Till  they  know  this,  are  to  themfelves  unknown." 

Of  {lories  I  well  know  there's  divers  forts, 
Some  foreign,  fome  domeftic  j  and  reports 
Are  thereof  made,  as  Fancy  leads  the  writers  : 
(By  books  a  man  may  guefs  at  the  inditers.) 

Some  will  again  of  that  which  never  was, 
Nor  will  be,  feign  (and  that  without  a  caufe) 
Such  matter,  raife  fuch  mountains,  tell  fuch  thing, 
Of  men,  of  laws,  of  countries,  and  of  Kings  , 
A»d  in  their  ftory  feem  co  be  fo  fage, 
And  with  fuch  gravity  clothe  ev'ry  page, 
That  though  their  frontifpiece  fays,  All  is  vai: 
Yet  to  their  way  difciples  they  obtain. 

But,  Readers*,  I  have  fomewbat  elfe  to  do 
Than  with  vain  ftories  thus  to  trouble  you  ; 
"Vhat  here  I  fay,  fome  men  do  know  fo  well, 

hey  can  with  teais  and  joy  the  ftory  tell- 

The  town  of  Manfoul  is  well  known  to  mar. 
Nor  are.  her  troubles  doubted  of  by  any 
Tharaie  acquainted  with  thofe  t  Hiftories 
That  Manfoul  and  her  wars  anatomize- 
Then  lejrjd  thine  Ear  to  what  I  dotoelate 
Touching  the  town  of  Manfoul,  and  her  date, 
How-.fturwas  loft,  took  captive,  made  a  flavc 

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And  how  againft  him  fet  that  fhould  her  fave  ; 

Yea,  how  by  hoftile  way*  (he  did  oppofe 

Her  Lord,  and  with  his  .enemy  did  clofe. 

Tor  they  are  true,  he  thaMvill  them  deny, 

Mufl  needs  the  beft  of  Records  vilify. 

For  my  part,  I  myfelf  was  in  the  Town, 

Both  when  'twas  fet  up  and  when  pulling  down  ; 

I  faw  Diabolus  in  his  pofleflion, 

And  Manfoul  alfo  under  his  oppreflion  ; 

Yea,  I  was  there,  when  me  own'd  him  for  Lord", 

And  to  him  did  fubmit  with  one  accord. 

When  Manfoul  trampled  upon  things  divine, 
And  wallowed  in  filth  as  doth  a  fwine  ; 
When  fhe  betook  herfelf  unto  her  arms, 

Fought  her  Emmanuel,  defpib'd  his  charms*;  *  His 

Then  I  was  there, -and  did  rejoice  to  fee  counfeis. 

Diabolus  and  Manfoul  fo  agree. 

Let  no  man,  then,  count  me  a  fable-maker, 
Nor  make  my  name  or  credit  a  partaker 
Of  their  derifion  :  what  is  here  in  view, 
Of  mine  own  knowledge,  I  dare  fay,  is  true. 

-  I  Taw  the  Prince's  armed  men  come  down 
2y. troops,  by  thoufands,  to  befiege  the  Town  : 
I  faw  the  captains,  heard  the  trumpets  found, 
And  how  his  forces  covered  all  the  ground  ; 
Yea,  how  they  fet  themfelves  in  battle-ray, 
Tflj&ll  remember  to  my  dying  day. 

J  faw  the  colours  waving  in  the  wind, 
And  they  within  to  mifchief  how  combin'd 
To  ruin  Manfoul,  and  to  make  away 
•Her  primum  mobile  t  without  delay.  t  Herjbat. 

I  h\>i,  the  mounts  caft  up  againft  the  Town, 
And  how  the  flings  were  plac'd  to  beat  it  down. 
1  heard  the  Hones  fly  whizzing  by  mine  ears, 
(What  longer  kept  in  mind  than  got  in  fears  ?) 
I" heard  them  fall,  and  faw  what  work  they  made, 


The  face  of  manfoul  :  and  I  heard  her  cry, 
.Woe  worth  the  day  !  in  dying  I  ihall  die. 

I  faw  the  batt'ringarms,  and  how  they  play'd 
To  beat. up  Ear-gate  ;  and  I  was  afraid, 
Not  only  Ear-gate,  but  the  very  Town, 
Would  by  thole  batt'ring-arms  be  beaten  do v 

I  faw  the  fights,  and  heard  the  captains  fhout, 
And  in  each  battle  faw  who  fae'd  about : 
I  faw  who  wounded  were  |j,  and  who  were  A 


"°'"4 


I 


TO    TtfE    RTADER. 

And  who,  when  dead,  would  come  to  life  again, 
I  heard  the  cries  of  thcfe  that  wounded  were, 
(While  others  fought  like  men  bereft  of  fear)  ; 
And  while  the  cry    kill,  kill,  was  in  mine  eaTS, 
The  gutters  ran,  not  fo  with  blood  as  tears. 

Indeed  the  captains  did  not  always  fight  ; 
But  then  they  would  moleil  us  day  and  night  ; 
Their  cryjfrUp,  fall  on,  let  us  take  the  Town, 
Kept  us  from  lleeping  or  from  lying  down. 

I  was  there  when  the  gates  were  broken  ope,. 
And  faw  how  Manfoul  then  was  llript  of  hope. 
I  faw  the  captains  march  into  the  Town  ; 
How  there  they  fought,  and  did  their  foes  cut  down. 

I  heard  the  Prince  bid  Boanerges  go 
Up  to  the  caflle,  and  there  feize  his  foe  : 
And  faw  him  and  his  fellows  bring  him  down 
In  chains  of  great  contempt  quite  through  the  Town, 

I  faw  Emmanuel  when  he  poflefs'd 
His  town  of  Manfoul,  and  how  greatly  blef>'d 
A  town,  his  gallant  town  of  Manfoul,  was, 
When  Ihe  receiv'd  his  pardon,  lov'd  his  laws 

When  the  Diabolonians  were  caught, 
When  try'd,  and  when  to  execution  brought, 
Then  I  was  there  ;  yea,  I  was  Handing  by 
Wrhen  Manfoul  did  the  rebels  crucify. 

I  alTo  faw  Manfoul  clad  all  in  white, 
And  heard  her  Prince  call  her  his  Heart's  Delight, 
I  faw  him  put  upon  her  chains  of  gold, 
And  rings,  and  bracelets,  goodly  to  behold. 

What  fhall  I  fay  ?  I  heard  the  people's  cries, 
And  faw  the  Prince  wipe  tears  from  Manfoul 
I  heard  the  groans,  and  faw  the  joy  of  many  ; 
Tell  you  of  all,  1  neither  will,  nor  can  f. 
But,  by  what  here  I  fay,  you  well  may  fee 
That  Manfoul's  matchlefs  wars  no  fables  be. 

Manfoul  the  defire  of  both  Princes  was  ; 
One  keep  his  gain  would,  t'other  gain  his  lof>  \ 
Diaboius  would  cry,  the  Town  is  mine  ; 
Emanuel  would  plead  a  right  divine 
Unto  his  Manfoul.     Then  to  blows  thev  go, 
And  Manfoul  cries,  Thcfe  wars  will  me  und 

-    Manfoul  her  wars  feem'd  endlefs  in  her  ev 
'oft  by  one,  becomes  another's  pi 

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And  he  again  that  loft  her  laft  would  (War, 
Have  her  I  will,  or  her  in  pieces  tear. 

Manfoul,  it  was  the  very  feat  of  war  ; 
Wherefore  her  troubles  greater  were  by  far 
Than  only  where  the  noife  of  war  is  heard, 
Or  where  the  fhaking  of  a  fword  is  fear'd, 
Or  only  where  fmall  (kirmifhes  are  fought, 
Or  where  the  Fancy  fighteth  with  a  thought. 

She  faw  the  fwords  of  fighting  men  made  red, 
And  heard  the  cries  of  thofe  with  them  wounded  : 
Muft  not  her  frights  then  be  much  more  by  far 
Than  theirs  that  to  fuch  doings  ftrangers  are  ? 
Or  theirs  that  hear  the  beating  of  a  drum, 
But  not  made  flee  for  fear  from  houfe  and  home  ? 

Manfoul  not  only  heard  the  trumpets'  found, 
But  faw  her  gallants  gafping  on  the  ground  : 
Wherefore  we  muff  not  think  that  fhe  could  reft 
With  them,  whofe  grcateft  earneft  is  but  jeft  ; 
Or  where  the  bluft'nng  threat'ning  of  great  wars 
X)o  end  in  parleys,  or  in  wording  jars, 

Manfoul  her  mighty  wars,  they  did  portend 
Her  well  or  woe,  and  that  world  without  end  : 
Wherefoie  (lie  muft  be  more  concern'd  than  they 
Whofe  fears  begin  and  end  the  felf-fame  day  ; 
Or  where  none  other  harm  cloth  come  to  him 

'  is  engag'd,  but  lofs  of  life  or  limb  ; 
As  all  mull  needs  confefs  that  now  do  dwell 
la  Univerfe,  and  can  this  ftory  tell. 

Count  me  not  then  with  them  that,  to  amaze 
people,  fet  them  on  the  (tars  to  gaze  ; 
ting  with  much  confidence, 
ach  of  them  is  now  the  refidence 

I  rave'ereatures  :  yea,  a  world  they  will 
in  each  liar,  though  it  be  paft  their  fkill 
man 
hath,  br.tcll  his  fingers  can. 


But  1  have  too  long  held  thee  in  the  porch, 
thee  from  the  fun-ihine  with  a  torch, 
go  forward,  fiep  within  the  door, 
Id  live  hundred  times  much  more, 

h  inward  rarities 
md  well,  and  will  feed  the  eyes 
•  which,  if  a  Chriftian,  thou  wilt  fee 
nail,  but  things  of  greateft  moment  be. 

Nor  do  thou  go  to  work  without  my  Key, 


I 


TO    THE    READER  ? 

(In  mvfteries  men  foon  do  iofe  their  way), 

And  alfo  turn  it  right.     If  thou  wouldft  know 

My  riddle,  and  wouldft  with  my  heifer  plow, 

It  lyes  there  in  the  Window*.     Fare  thee  well.  *Tk* 

My  next  may  be  to  ring  thy  pafling-bell.  margin. 

JOHN  BUNYAX. 


AN 
ADVERTISEMENT 

TO   THE 

R       E     'A       D       E       R. 


SOME  fay,  the  Pilgrim  s  Progvfs  is  not  mine  ; 
I   filiating  as  if  I  would  fhine 
In  name  and  fame  by  the  worth  of  another, 
Like  fome  made  rich  by  robbing  of  their  brother  ; 
Or  that  fo  fond  I  am  of  being  lire, 
Til  father  baftards  ;  cr,. if  need  require, 
Til  :eil  a  lie  .in  print  to  get  applaufe. 
I  fcorn  it  ;  John'fuch  dirt-heap  never  was, 
Since  God  converted  him.     Let  this  fuflice 
To  ihew  why  I  my  Pilgrim  patronize. 

aine  from  mine  own  heart,  fo  to  my  head, 

2  into  my  fingers  trickled  ; 
*o  mv.pen,  from  whence  immediately 

..  did  dribble  it  daintily. 

;nsr  and  matter  too  was* all  my  own  ; 
it  unto  any  mortal  known 

had  done  iT..    Nor  did  any  then, 

by  wits,  by  tongues,  or  hand,  or  pen, 
ords  to  it,  or  wrote  half  aline  : 
the  whole,  and  ev:ry  whit,  is  mine. 

for  This,  thine  eye  is  now  upon, 

matter  iir  this  manner  came  from  none 

the  fame  heart  and  head,  fingers  and  pen. 
As  did  the  other.     Witnefs  all  aood  men  : 
Tor  none  in  all  the  world,  without  a  lie, 
Can  fay  that  this  is  mine  excepting  I. 

I  write  not  this  of  anv  oftentation, 
Nor  'caufe  I  fedk  of  men  their  commendation  ; 
I  do  it  to  keep  them  from  fuch  furmife 
As  tc  i  <\\\  my  name  to  fcandalize. 

Witnefs  my  name,  if  anagram'd  to  thee, 
Tfee- letters  make,  Nu.  konyin  a  B, 

JOHN  BVy: 


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RELATION 


OF  THE 


HOLY     WAR,     &c. 


IN  my  travels,  as  I  walked  through  many  re- 
gions and  countries,  it  was  my  chance  to 
happen  into  that  famous  continent  of  Uni- 
verfe  ;  avery  large  and  fpacious country  it  is.  It 
lieth  between  the  two  poles,  and  juif.  amidft  the 
four  points  of  the  heavens.  It  is  a  place  well 
watered,  and  richly  adorned  with  hills  and  vaJ  lies,, 
bravely  fltuate,  and,  for  the  moil  part,  fat  lead 
where  I  was)  very  fruitful,  alio  well  peopled 
a  very  fweet  air. 

The  people  are  not  all  of  one  conplcxion,  nor 
yet  of  one  language,  mode,  or  way  of  religion  ; 
but  differ  as  much  as  (it  is  faid)  do  the  planets 
themfelves.  Some  are  right, and.foniearewron.gr, 
even  as  it  happeneth  to  be  in  leillr  regions. 

In  this  country,  as  I  faid,  it  was  my  lot  to  tra- 
vel ;  and  there  travel  1  did,  and  that  fo  long,  even 
till  I  learned  much  of  their   mother-tongue,    to- 
gether with  the  cuftoms  and  manners    of  them 
A  natural  among    whom   I  was.      And,  to  i; 
:    truth,  I  was  much    delighted    to 
?  and    hear  many  things  which   I  fiw 
and  heard  among  them  ;  -1  had  (to 

::e)  even  lived  anddiedanativeamong  tl 


io  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

(fo  was  I  taken  with  them  and  their  doings),  had 

r,   '.n    not  my  Matter  fent  for  me' home  to  his 

'rtJ  '  houfe,  there  to  do  bufinefs  for  him,  and  to 
overfee  bufinefs  done. 

Now  there  is  in  this  gallant  country  of  Uni- 
.  ^  verfe  a  fair  and  delicate  town,  a  corpora- 
tion, czWed  Man fiul  :&  town,  for  its  build- 
ing fo  curious,  for  its  fituation  fo  commodious, 
for  its  privileges  fo  advantageous,  (T  mean,  with 
reference  to  its  original),  that  I  may  fay  of  it,  as 
was  fa  id  before  of  the  Continent  in  which  it  is 
placed,  There  is  not  its  equal  under  the  whole 
heaven. 

As  to  the  fituation  of  this  town,  it  liethjuit  be- 
tween the  two  worlds  ;  and  the  firll  founder  and 
builder  of  it,  fo  far  as  by  the  belt  and  moil:  au- 
Scrif  tares,  thentic  records  lean  gather,  was  one 
Tke-a-I-  Shaddai  5  and  he  built  it  for  his  own 
mighty y  delight.  He  made  it  the  mirror  and 
Gen,  i.  26.  glory  of  all  that  he  made,  even  the 
top-piece  beyond  any  thing  elfc  that  he  did  in 
/that  country  ;  yea,  fo  goodly  a  town  wasMan- 

?>  ^   .      \.  A  <  foul  when  firft  built, that  it  isfaid  by 

Created  An-  c  ,  •,        '      ,     c     •         J 

.  fome,    the   gods,    at   the  letting  up 

thereof,   came   down  to  fee   it,  and 
ng  for  joy.  '  And  as  he  made  it  goodly  to  be- 
»id,  fo  alio   mighty   to   have  dominon  over  all 
the  country  round  about  ;  yea,  all  was  command- 
to  acknowledge  Manfoul  for  their  metropolitan, 
all   was  injoined  todo  homage  to   it.     Ay,  the 
town  Lid  positive  commiffion   and  power 

frim  her  Knig  to  demand  fervice  of  all,  and  alio- 
10  fubdue  any 'thai- anywife  denied  to  do  it. 
'  There  w  6d  up  in  the  mid  it  of  this  to1 

4T7     rf  anioft  fa. nous  undftateiy  pal, 

The  Heart.  .  .,-,  .    .       .   ,     ,         ,<  \ 

F_  .    ltrength.it  might- be  called  a  , 

"'  for  plcafantnefs,apa:adifcs  foi 


The   HOLY   WAR.  u 

Tiefs,  a  place  fo  copious  as  to  contain  all  the 
world.  This  place  the  King  Shaddai  intended  but 
for  himfelf  alone,  and  not  another  with  him; 
partly  becaufe  of  his  own  delights,  and  partly  be- 
caufe  he  would  not  that  the  terror  of  itrangers, 
ihould  be  upon  the  Town.  This  place  Shaddai 
made  alfo  a  garrifon  of,  but  committed  the  keep- 
ing of  it,  only,  to  the  men  of  the  town. 

The  wall  of  the  Town  was  built,  yea,  fo   fall 

— ;      r  and  firm  was   it  knit    and   compact 

he  powers  t0getjierj  tjiat  hacj  jt  not  Dcen  for  the 

cj  the  Jout.    townfmen   thcmlelves,    they   could 

not  have  been  fhaken  or  broken  for  ever. 

For  here  lay  the  excellent  wifdom  of  him*that 
q,*    ,,      builded  Manfoul,  that  the  walls  could 
0  J*    never  be  broken  down,  nor  hurt  by 
the  mod  mighty  adverfe  potentate,,  unlefs  ?thie- 
townfmen  gave  confent  thereto. 

This  famous  town  of  Manfoul  had  five -gates,  jn 
at  which  to  come,  out  at  which  t6  go,  \  and  tr 
were  made  likewife  anfvverable  to  the.  waifs,  -; 
impregnable,  and  fuch  as  could  never  be  < 
nor  forced  but  by  the  will   and   leave   o-r 
TI    &      Wltnin;     The  names  of  the  gate 

renfes'0    thefe' Ear"gatc»  Eye-gate,  Mou  el 
J    J  "        Nofe-gate,  and  Feel-gate. 

Other  things  there  were  that  belonged  to  the. 
tovvn^of  Manfoul,  which,  if  you  adjoin  to  tJl< 
will  yet  give  farther  demon  11  ration  to  all  of  the: 
glory §/and  flrength  of  the  place.     It  had  always 
a  fufliciency  of  provillon  within  its  walls  -  it  J 
the/beit,  moiVwholefome  and  exec'  .w  that 

then  was  extant  in  the  world.     There 
['■  was  not  a  rafcal,  rogue,  liteious 

f>§rfon,theri  within  its  :  they  were 

all'trjicmen,   and  fail 

and-  this; you  know 


12  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Add  to  all  thefe,  it  had  always  (fo  long  as  it  had 
the  goodnefs  to  keep  true  to  Shaddai  the  King) 
his  countenance,  his  protection,  and  it  was  his  de-~ 
light,  &c. 

Well,  upon  a  time  there  was  one  Diabolus,  a 
_,  ,  ..mighty  giant,  made  an  affault  upon 
'this  famous  town  of  Man  foul,  to  take  it, 
and  make  it  his  own  habitation.  This  giant  was 
Sinners,  king  of  the  blacks  or  negroes,  and  a  moll 
<77    fJ     rav*n'S  prince he  was.   We  will,  if  you 

AIa       pleafe,  fir^t  difcourfe  of  the  original  of 
this  Diabolus,  and  then  of  his  taking  of 
&el ,  this  famous  town  of  Manfoul. 

This  Diabolus  is  indeed  a  great  and  mighty 
,_,,        .    .  prince, and  yet  both  poor  and  beggarly. 

/;,  rfy  7  As  to  his  original,  he  was  at  fir  It  one  of 
r  j  °  *  the  fervants  of  King  Shaddai,  made  and 
taken,  and  put  by  him  into  a  mod  high 
and 'mighty  place  ;  yea,  was  put  into  fuch  princi- 
palities as  belonged  to  the  belt  of  his  territories 
and  dominions.     This  Diabolus  was  made  Son  of 

.yr ■'.-  .  the  morning;,  and  a  brave  place  he  had 

/p.xiv.  12.   £ .         '•     u         ,  •    ,  .  LI 

of  it  :    it  brought   him  much   glory, 

and  gave  him  much   brightnefs,    an  income  that 

might  have  contented  his  luciferan  heart,  had  it 

not  been  infatiable,  and  enlarged  as  hell  itfelf. 

Well,  he  feeing  himfelf  thus  exalted  to  great- 
nefs  and  honour,  and  raging  in  his  mind  for  high- 
er itate  and  degree  ;  what  doth  he,  but  begin  to 
think  with  Jiirrifclf  how  he  might  be  i'tt  up  as  lord 
over  all,  and  have  the  fole  power  under  Shaddai. 

p     y        (Now  that  did  the   King  refer ve  for 
%   f  'U'^'   his  Son,  yea,  and  had  already  b.-ft. 
J  ed  it  upon  him.)     Wherefore  hen 

confulcs  with  himfelf  what  had   beil  to 
then  breaks  his  mind   to   fome  o 1 1 
companions,  to  the  which  they  alfo  agtc'< ; 


The    HOLY  WAR.  k 

in  fine,  they  came  to  this  iflue,  that  they  fhouk 
make  an  attempt  upon  the  King's  Son  to  deftro} 
him,  that  the  inheritance  might  be  theirs.  WelJ,tc 
be  fhort,  the  treafon  (asl  faid)  was  concluded,  the 
time  appointed,the  word  given, the  rebels  rendez- 
voufed,and  the  afTault  attempted.  Now,  the  King 
and  his  Son,  being  all  and  always  Eye,  could  not 
but  difcern  all  parages  in  his  dominions  •  and  he 
having  always  love  for  his  Son  as  for  himfelf, 
could  not,  at  what  he  faw,  but  be  greatly  provo- 
ked and  offended  :  wherefore,what  does  he,  but 
takes  them  in  the  very  nick,<&  n*rft  trip  that  they 
made  towards  their  deiign,  convicts  them  of  the 
treafon, horrid  rebellion  and  confpiracy  that  they 
had  devifed,and  now  attempted  to  put  in  prac- 
tice,and  cafts  them  altogether  out  of  all  place  of 
truft,  benefit, honour,and  preferment :  this  dqne, 
he  banifhes  them  the  court,turns  them  down  in- 
to the  horrible  pits,  &  fail  bound  them  in  chains, 
never  more  to  expect  the  leaft  favour  from  his 
hands,  but  to  abide  the  judgment  that  he  had 
appointed,  and  that  for  ever  and  ever. 

Now,  they  being  caft  out  of  all  place  of  truft, 
profit  and  honor,  and  alfo  knowing  that  they  had 
loft  their  Prince's  favour  forever  (being  b^niilied 
his  court, and  caft  down  to  the  horrible. pits)  you 
may  be  fure  they  would  now  add  to  their  former 

Pet  v   8    Pr^e>  wnat  malice  and  rage  againft 
Shaddai,  and  againft   his  Son,    they 
could.     Wherefore,  roving  and  ranging -in  much 
fury  from  place  to  place  (if  pt -rhaps  they  might 
find  fomet h i n g  t h a t  was  t h e Ki n g'- )  to  re y-e nge, by 
fpoiling  of  that,  themfelves  on  him.,  y    !   ft      cy 
happened  into  this  fpacious  country- of  fclniverfe,  . 
and  -ft  e'er  their  courfe  towards  the  town  of  Man- 
foui  :  and,  confide  ring  that  that  Town  was  pj 
the  cljJef  works  and  delights   of  King  Sh 
B 


i4  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

what  do  they  but,  after  counfel  taken,  make  an 
affault  upon  that.  I  fay,  they  knew  thatManfoul 
belonged  unto  Shaddai,for  they  were  there  when 
he  built  it,  and  beautified  it  for  himfelf :  fo,  when 
they  had  found  the  place,  they  fhouted  horribly 
for  joy,  and  roared  on  it  like  as  a  lion  upon  the 
prey,  faying,  Now  we  have  found  the  prize,  and 
A  council  how  to  be  revenged  on  KingShaddai 
of  war  held  for  what  he  hath  done  to  us.  So  they 
by  Diabolus  fat  down  and  called  a  council  of  war, 
and  his  fel-  and  confidered  with  themfelves  what 
lows  again  (I  ways  and  methods  they  had  beft  to  en- 
ihe  town  of  gage  in  for  the  winning  to  themfelves 
Man  foul.  this  famous  town  of  Manfoul.  And 
theft  four  things  were  then  propounded  to  be 
confidered  of. 

lit,  Whether  they  had  bell  all  of  them  to  fhew 
n  i >  >  themfelves  in  this  defkn  to  the  town 
P">M<I*'  of  Manfoul? 

2dly,  Whether  they  had  befl  to  go  and  fit 
down  againll  Manfoul  in  their  now  ragged  and 
beggarly  guife  ? 

jcfl.jr,  Whether  they  had  befl  to  fhew  to 
Manfoul  their  intentions,  and  what  defign  they 
came  about  ;  or  whether  to  affault  it  with  words 
and  ways  of  deceit  ? 

4thly,  Whether  they  had  not  beft,  by  fome  of 
their  companions,  to  give  out  private  orders  to 
take  the  advantage,  if  they  fee  one  or I  more  of 
the  principal  townfmen,  to  moot  them  ;-  if  there- 
by they  mall  judge  their  caufe  and  defign  will 
the  better  be  promoted  ? 

It  was  anfvvered  to  the  fir  ft  of  thefepropofals  in 
cj>r  -V-  the  negative,  viz.  That  it  would  notbe 
£  n't  bed  that  all  mould  mew  themfelves  be- 
i)  f  I  **°rc  ^ie  Town,  becaufe  the  appearance" 
*  \a '  of  many  of  them  might  alarm  and  frighc; 


The   HOLY    WAR.  '  15 

the  Town  ;  whereas  a  few,  or  but  one  of  them, 
was  not  fo  likely  to  do  it.  And,  to  inforcc  this 
advice  to  take  place,  it  was  added  further,  that  if 
-^Ianfoul  was  frighted,  or  did  take  the  alarm,  it  is 
impofTible,  faid  Diabolus  (for  he  fpake  now)  that 
we  Ihould  take  the  Town;  for  that  none  can  enter 
into  it  without  its  own  confent.  Let  therefore  but 
few,or  but  one, arlault  Manfoul  ;  and, in  mine  opi- 
nion, faid  Diabolus,  let  me  be  he.  Wherefore  to 
this  they-  all  agreed.  And  then  to  the  2d  propofai 
The  fe-  they  came,  namely, "Whether  they  had 
cond pro-bei\  to  go  and  fit  down  before  Manfoul 
fofaL  in  their  now- ragged  Sc  beggarly  guife  \n 
To  which  it  was  anfweredalfoin  the  negative, 
By  no  means ;  and  that  becaufe, Though  the  town 
of  Manfoul  had  been  made  to  know,  Sc  to  have  to 
do  before  now  with  things  that  are  invisible,  they 
did  never  as  yet  fee  any  of  their  fellow-creatures 
info  fad  and  rafcally  a  condition  as  they.  And  that 
/ll *fi  was  the  advice  of  that  fierce  A!ec~ro. 
J  ,,'  Then  faid  Apollyon,  the  advice  is  per- 
r  '  '  tinent  ;  for  even  one  of  us  appearing 
to  them  as  we  are  now  muft  needs  both  beget  and 
multiply  fuch  thoughts  in  them  as  will  both  put 
them  into  a  conilernation  of  fpirit,an\i Tieceffitatc- 
them  to  put  themfelves  upon  their  guard  :  andif 
fo,faid  he,  then, as  my  Lord  A 1  eel o  faid,  but  now 
it  is  in  vain  for  us  to  think  of  taking  the  Town. 

Beelzehub.  Then  laid  that  mighty  Giant  Beelze- 
bub,the  advice  that  already  is  given 
is  fafe  ;  for  though  the  men  of  Manfoul. inve  fcen 
iuch  things  as  we  once  were, yet  hitherto  theydief 
never  behold  fuch  things  as  we  now  are  :  and  it 
is  beit^in  mine  opinion, to  come  upon  them  in  fuch 
a  guife  as  is  common  to  and  moll  familiar  among 
them.  To  this,when  they  had  confented,the"  next 
:bing  to  be  confidered  was,in  what  fhape,hue,or 


x6  The    HOLY    WAR. 

guife,Diabolus  had  beft  to  fhew  himfelf,when  he 
went  about  to  m.tke-Manfoul  his  own.  Then  one 
faid  one  thing,  and  another  the  contrary  ;  at  Lft 
j  .f  Lucifer  anfwered,  that,  in  his  opinion, 
'*e  '  it  was  beft  that  his  Lordfhip  fhould  af- 
fume  the  body  of  fome  of  thofe  creatures  that  they 
of  the  Town  had  dominion  over  ;  for,  quoth  he, 
thefe  are  not  only  familiar  to  them,  but  being  un- 
der them,  they  will  never  imagine  that  any  at- 
tempt fhould  by  them  be  made  upon  the  Town  : 
r       ...         and,  to  blind  all,  let  him  afTume  the 

R*v  xx  l    body  °f  one  °f  thefe    bealb  that 
Manfoul  deems  to  be  wifer  than  any 

one  of  the  reft.  This  advice  was  ap- 
plauded of  all ;  fo  it  was  determined  that  the  Gi- 
agft  Diabolus  ihould  afTume  the  dragon,  for   that 
he  was  one  in  thofe  days  as  -  familiar   with    the 
:ovvn  of  Manfoul  as  now   is   the  bird   with    the 
f  ;  for  nothing  that  was  in  its  primitive  ftate 
.s  at  all  amazing  to  them.  Then  they  proceed- 
ed to  the  third  thing,  which  was, 

3diy,    "Whether  they  had  befl  to  fhew  their 

77    th'  d  intentions,or  their  defign  of  his  coming 

b     h  Tl     t0  Minfovl,  or  no  -'  This  a^°  was  an" 

fropoj    .   fwerecj  -m  t^e  negative  ;  becaufe  of  the 

weight  that  was  in  the  former  reafons,  to  wit, for 
that  Manfoul  were  a  flrong  people,  in  a  ftrong 
town,  whofe  wall  and  gates  were  impregnable  (to 
fay  nothing  of  their  caftle)  nor  can  they  by  any 
means  be  won  but  by  their  ownconfent.  Befides, 
j     *      faid  Legion  (for  he  gave  anfwer  to  this) 

&*°  'a  difcovery  of  our  intentions  may  make 
them  fend  to  their  King  for  aid  ;  and,  if  that  be 
done,  I  know  quickly  what  time  of  day  it  wi41  be 
with  us.  Therefore  let  us  affault  them  in  all  pt< 
tended  fairnefs,  covering  of  our  intentions  with 

.  manner  of  lies,  flatteries,  delufive  words,  feign- 


The    HOLY    WAR,  17 

ing  of  things  that  will  never  be,  and  promifing 
of  that  to  them  that  they  iliall  never  find  :  this 
is  the  way  to  win  Manlbul,  and  to  make  them 
of  themfelves  to  open  their  gates  to  us,  yea,  and 
to  defire  us  too  to  come  in  to  them. 

And  the  reafon  why  I  think  that  this  project 
will  do  is,  becaufe  the  people  of  Manfoul  now  are 
every  one  fimple  and  innocent,  all  honefl  and 
true  :  nor  do  they  as  yet  know  what  it  is  to  be 
aflaulted  with  fraud,  guile  and  hypocricy.  They 
are  ftrangers  to  lying  and  diffembling  lips  5 
wherefore  we  cannot,  if  thus  we  be  difguifed,  by 
them  at  all  be  difcerned  ;  our  lies  iliall  go  for  true 
fayings,  and  our  diffimulations  for  upright  dealr 
ings.  What  we  promife  them  they  will  in  that 
believe  us  ;  efpecially,  if  in  all  our  lies  and  feign- 
ed words  we  pretend  great  love  to  them,,  and 
that  our  defign  is  only  their  advantage  and  ho- 
nour. Now,  there  was  not  one  bit  of  a  reply  a- 
gainft  this  ;  this  went  as  current  down  as  doth 
the  water  down  a  fteep  defcent.  Wherefore  they 
go  to  confider  of  the  laft  propofal,  which  w/asy 

4thly,  "  Whether  they  had  not  bed   to  give 

(ri    r     Ai     out  orders  to  fome  of  their  company 

The  fourth.        n  c  /   XJ 

4 C /        to  llioot  iome  one  or  .more   ol    the 

■*    *  ^  principal  of  the   toyvnfmen,  if  they 

judge  that  their  caufe  may  be  promoted  thereby  \n 
This  was  carried  in  the  affirmative  ;  and  the  man 
that  was  defigned  by  this  ftratagem  to  be  deflroy- 
ed  was  one  Mr.Refiftance,  otherwife  called  Gaf>t(f 
Of  Cap-  Refill  ance  ;  and  a  great  man  in  Manfoul 
tain  Re-  this  Capt.  Refinance  was,  and  a  man  that. 
fiftance.  the  Giant  Diabolus  and  his  hand  more 
feared  -tha-iv  they  feared  the  whole  town  of  Man- 
foul befides.  Now,  who  mould  be.the  actor  to  do 
the  murder  ?  that  was  the  next  ;  and  they  ap- 
pointed oneTiilphane,  a  furv  of  the  lake,  to  i 

B3 


i8  The    HOLY    WAR. 

They  thus  having  ended  their  council  of  war, 
rofe  up,  and  affayed  to  do  as  they  had  determin- 
er r  i:  red  :  they  marched  towards  Manfoul, 
loe  re/ult  of ,    fc    n  /  .      .r,  ,      r     ' 

,,   ■    J      A  but  all  in  a  manner  lnvmble   lave 
their  council*       ,  ,.  ,  ,  ,     . 

only  one  ;  nor  did  he  approach  the 

Town  in  his  own  likenefs,  but  under  the  fhade, 
and  in  the  body  of  the  Dragon. 

So  they  drew  up,  and  fat  down  before  Ear-gate, 
for  that  was  the  place  of  hearing  for  all  without 
the  town,  as  Eye-gate  was  the  place  of  perfpec- 
tion.  So,  as  I  faid,  he  came  up  with  his  train  to 
Diabolus  the  gate,  and  laid  his  ambufcado  for 
marches  up  Captain  Reflftance  within  bowfhot 
to  the  Town  of  the  town.  This  done,  the  Giant 
and  calls  for  afcended  up  clofe  to  the  gate,  and 
audience,  called  to  the  town  of  Manfoul  for 
audience  :  nor  took  he  any  with  him  but  one 
Ill-paufe,  who  was  his  orator  in  all  difficult  mat- 
ters. Now,  as  I  faid,  he,  being  come  up  to  the 
gate  (as  the  manner  of  thofe  times  was)  found- 
er t  j  /-ed  his  trumpet  for  audience.  At 
jjje  lords  of     ,  .  .     .       fc r  c  «.,  -.  r  n , 

-j.    fr   i       which  the  chiei  of  the  town  of  Man- 

/  -  ,       foul,  fuch  as  my  Lord  Innocent,  my 
appeared.      ^  WiIlbewi,i>  my  Lord  Mayor, 

Mr.  Recorder,   and    Captain   Reflftance,    came 
down  to  the  wall  to  fee  who  was  there,  and  what 

.was  the  matter.  And  my  Lord  Willbewill,  when 
he  had  looked  over,  and  faw  who  flood  at  the 
gate,  demanded  what  he  was,  wherefore  he  was 
come,  and  why  he  roufed  the  town  of  Manfoul 
with  fo  unufual  a  found  ? 
-Diabolus  then,  as  if  he  had  been  a  lamb,  began 
.  ,   .  his  oration,  and  faid,  "  Gentlemen  y£ 

.Diuious        the  famous  town   of  Manfoul,  Tarn*, 
bis  oration,    ^  yQu  m^  perceivc>  no  far  dwelled 

•  from  yon,  but  near;  and  one  thrat  is  bound  by  th^ 
King  to  do  you  my  homage,  and  what   fervice  I 


The    HOLY    WAR.  i9 

can  ;  wherefore,  that  I  may  be  faithful  to  my- 
felf,  and  to  you,  I  have  fomewhat  of  concern  to 
impart  unto  you  :  wherefore  grant  me  your  au- 
dience, and  hear  me  patiently.  And,  firil,  I  will 
afTure  you,  it  is  not  myfelf,  but  you  ;  not  mine, 
but  your  advantage  that  I  feek  by  what  I -now 
do,  as  will  full  well  be  made  manifeit  by  that  I 
have  opened  my  mind  unto  you.  For,  Gentle- 
men, I  am  (to  tell  you  the  truth)  come  to  ihew 
you  how  you  may  obtain  great  and  ample  deli- 
verance from  a  bondage  that,  unawares  to  your- 
felves,  you  are  captivated  and  inflaved  under.* 
At  this  the  town  of  Manibul  began  to  prick  up 
.  -    r    .   its  ears  ;  and  what  is  it   ?   pray   what 

engage  '  j,ave  fomewhat  to  fay  to  you  concern- 
ing your  King,  concerning  his  law,  and  alio 
touching  yourfelves.  Touching  your  King,  I 
know  he  is  great  and  potent  ;  but  yet  all  that 
ho  hath  faid  to  you  is  neither  true  nor  yet  for 
3'our  advantage,  ill.  Tis  not  true  ;  for  that 
wherewith  he  hath  hitherto  awed,  you  mall  not 
come  to  pafs,  nor  be  fulfilled,  tho'  you  do  the 
thing  that  he  hath  forbidden.  But,  if  there  was 
danger,  what  a  flivery  is  it  to  live  always  rn  fe'af 
of  the  greateft  of  punifhments  for  doing  \'o  fmafl 
and  trivial  a  thing  as  eating  of  a  little  fruir  is  !'■ 
2d,  Touching  his  laws,  this  I  fay  further,  they 
t>.  ,  7  are  both  unreafonable,  intricate,  and 

/*    f  ht  It      int°JeraD'e»     Unreaicrtable,    as  was 

j     L    r  hinted  before  ;  for  that  the  punifo- 
made  up  of  '         .  r,         - 

7.  *  f-  ment  is  not  proportioned  to  the  of- 
fence. There  is  great  difference  an3 
difpropbrtion  betwixt  the  life  and  an  apple;  yet 
the  one  mufl  go  for  the  other,  by  the  law  of 
your  Shaddai.  But  it  is  alio  intricate,  in  th,' 
faith,  firft, yoii  may  eat  of  all  \  and  yet  after  for*. 


2o  The    HOLY    WAR. 

bids  the  eating  of  one.  And  then,  in  the  laft 
place,  it  mull  needs  be  intolerable,  forafmuch  as 
that  fruit  which  you  are  forbidden  to  eat  of  (if 
you  are  forbidden  anyj  is  that,  and  that  alone, 
-which  is  able,  by  your  eating, tominifter  to  you 
a  good  as  yet  unknown  by  you.  This  is  mani- 
felt  by  the  very  name  of  the  tree  ;  it  is  called 
the  Tree  of  the  Knowledge  of  Good  and  Evil  :  and 
have  you  that  Knowledge  as  yet  ?  No,  no  ;  nor 
can  you  conceive  how  good,  how  pleafant,  and 
how  much  to  be  defired  to  make  one  wife,  it  is, 
fo  long  as  you  Hand  by  your  King's  command- 
ment. Why  mould  you  beholden  in  ignorance 
and  blindnefs  f  why  ihould  you  not  be  enlarged 
In  knowledge  and  underftanding  I  And  now,ah  \ 
ye  inhabitants  of  the  famous  town  of  Manfoul,  to 
fpeak  more  particularly  to  yourfelves,  you  are 
not  a  £ree  people  ;  you  are  kept  both  in  bondage 
and  flavery,  and  that  by  a  grievous  threat  ;  no 
reafon  being  annexed  but,  fo  I  will  have  it,  fo  it 
fhall  be.  And  is  it  not  grievous  to  think  on  that 
very  thing  that  you  are  forbidden  to  do,  might 
you  but  do  it,  would  yield  you  both  wifdom  and 
lionour  r  for  then  your  eyes  will  be  opened,  and 
you  (hall  be  as  gods.  Now,  fince  this  is  thus," 
quoth  he,  "  can  you  be  kept  by  any  prince  in 
more  'flavery,  and  in  greater  bondage,  than  you 
are.uhder  this  day  I  You  aremade  underlings,and 
:ire  wrapt  up  in  inconveniencies,  as  I  have  well 
made  appear  :  for,  what  bondage  greater  than  to  ' 
he  kept  in  blindnefs  ?  Will  not  reafon  tell  you 
that  it  is  better  to  have  eyes  than  to  be  without 
them  ;  and  fo  to  be  at  liberty  to  be  better  than  to 
be  (hut  up  in  a  dark  and  (linking  cave  :" 

And  j aft  now,  while  Diabolus   was  fpeak; 
thefe  words  to  Manfoul,Tifiphane  fhotat  Captain 
Caft,  Re-  Refiftance  where  he  flood  on  the  gate, 


The    HOLY   WAR.  21 

Jiftancejlain.  and  •  mortally  wounded  him  in  the 
head  ;  fo  that  he,  to  the  amazement  of  the  townf- 
men,&  the  encouragement  of  Diabolus,fell  down 
dead  quite  over  the  wall.  Now  when  Capt.  Re- 
flftance  was  deadend  he  was  the  only  man  of  war 
in  the  Town)  poor  Man  foul  was  wholly  left  na- 
ked of  courage,  nor  had  (lie  now  any  heart  to  re- 
MrJll-faufe  fill:  but  this  was  as  the  Devil  would 
his  fpeech  have  it.  Then  flood  forth  that  he, 
to  the  town  Mr.  Ul-paufe,  that  Diabohis  brought 
of  Manful,  with  him,  who  was  his  orator  ;  and 
he  addreffed  himfelf  tofpeak  to  the  town  of  Man- 
foul  ;  the  tenor  of  whofe  fpeech  here  follows  : 

Ill-paufe.  "Gentlemen,"  quoth  he,  "  it  is  my 
mailer's  happinefs  that  he  has  this  day  a  quiet  and 
teachable  auditory  ;  and  it  is  hoped  by  us  that 
we  mall  prevail  with  you  not  to  call  off  good  ad- 
vice. My  mailer  has  a  very  great  love  for  you  ; 
and  although,  as  he  very  well  knows,  he  runs  the 
hazard  of  the  anger  of  King  Shaddai,  yet  love  to 
you  will  make  him  do  more  than  that.  Nor  does 
there  need  that  a  word  more  mould  be  fpoken  to 
confirm  for  truth  what  he  hath  faid;  there  rs  not 
a  word  but  carries  with  it  felf-evidencein  its  bow- 
els :  the  very  name  of  the  tree  may  put  an  end  to 
all  controverfy  in  this  matter.  I,  the  reforest  this 
time,  fliall  only  add  this  advice  toyou,  under  and 
by  fte  leave  of  my  Lord  (and  with  that  he  made 
Diabolus  a  very  low  congee)  Confider  his  words, 
look  on  the  tree,  and  t  he  promifing  fruit  thereof; 
remember  alfo  that  yec  you  know  but  little,  and 
that  this  is  the  way  to  know  more  :  and,  if  your 
reafons  be  not  conquered  to  accept  of  fuch  good 
counfei,  you  are  not  the  men  that  I  took  you  to 
be."  But  when  the  townsfolk  faw  that  the  tree 
was  good  for  fond,  and  that  in  was  pleafant  to  the 
eye,  and  a  tree  to  be  defired  to  make  one  wife,  they 


22  The  «HOLY    WAR. 

did  as  old  Ill-paufe  advifed,  they  took  and  did  eac 
My  Lord  thereof.  Now, this  1  fhould  have  told 
Innocences  you  before,  that  even  then,  when  this 
death.  Ill-paufe  was  making  of  his  fpeech  to 

the  townfmen,  my  Lord  Innocency  (whether  by 
a  fliot  from  the  camp  of  the  Giant,  or  from  fomc 
finking  qualm  thatfuddenly  took  him,  or  whether 
by  the  (linking  breath  of  that  treacherous  villain 
old  Ill-paufe,  for  fo  I  am  moil  apt  to  think)  funk 
down  in  the  place  where  he  flood  ;  nor  could  he 
be  brought  to  life  again.  Thus  thefe  two  brave 
men  died  ;  brave  men  I  call  them,  for  they  were 
the  beauty  and  glory  of  Manfoul  fo  long  as  they 
lived  therein  :  nor  did  there  now  remain  any 
more  a  noble  fpirit  in  Manfoul  ;  they  all  fell 
down,  and  yielded  obedience  to  Diabolus,  and  be- 
came his  flaves  and  vafTals,  as  you  fhall  hear. 
Now,  thefe  being  dead,  what  do  the  refl  of  the 

&>i    ct>       townsfolk,  but,  as  men  that  had  found 
The  Tovjn    c     „        '    ,.  '      ,              r      , 
•    /            ,a  fools  paradice,  they  prelently,  as  a- 
taken,  and.,    f  ,,v_r  juit\f—„-XL i 


ho 


w. 


fore  was  hinted,  fall  to  provethe  truth 


of  the  Giant's  words.  And,  firfl,  they 
did  as  Ill-paufe  had  taught  them;  they  looked, 
they  considered,  they  were  taken  with  the  for- 
bidden fruit,  "they  took  thereofanddidcat;"and, 
having  eaten,  they  became  immediately  drunken 
therewith  :  fo  they  opened  thegates,  both,  Ear- 
gate  and  Eye-gate,  and  let  in  Diabolus  with  all 
his  bands  ;  quite  forgetting  their  good  Shaddai^ 
his  law,  and  the  judgment  that  he  had  annexed, 
with  foiemn  threatening  to  the  breach  thereof. 
Diabolus,  having  now  obtained  entrance  in  at 
the  gates  of  the  Town,  marches  up  to  the  middle 
thereof,  to  make  his  conquefl  as  fure  ashecould; 
and,  finding  by  this  time  the  affections  of  the  peo- 
ple warmly  inclining  to  him,  he,as  thinking- it 
'bed  finking  when  the  iron  is  hot,  made  this 


The   HOLY   WAR.  23 

thcr  deceivable  fpeech  unto  them,  faying,  "Alas, 
my  poor  Manfoul  !  I  have  done  thee  indeed  this 
fervice,  as  ro  promote  thee  to  honour,  and  to 
greaten  thy  liberty;  but,  alas!  alas  !  poorManfoul, 
thou  wanted  now  one  to  defend  thee :  for,  allure 
thyfelf  that,  when  Shaddai  ihall  hear  whatisdone, 
he  will  come  ;  for  forry  will  he  be  that  thou  haft 
broken  his  bonds,  and  call  his  cords  away  from 
thee.  What  wilt  thou  do  ?  wilt  thou,  after  en- 
largement, fuffer  thy  privileges  to  be  invaded  and 
taken  away  ;  or  what  wilt  thou  refolve  with  thy- 
felf V  Then  they  all,  with  one  confent,  faid  to  this 
He  is  enter-  Bramble,  Do  thou  reign  over  us.  So 
tained  for  he  accepted  the  motion,  and  became 
their  king,  the  king  of  the  town  of  Manfoul. 
be  is  fof-  This  being  done,  the  next  thing  was 
fejfed  of  the  to  give  him  pofleliion  of  the  Caftle, 
Caflle,  and  and  fo  of  the  whole  ftrength  of  the 
fortifies  it  Town.  Wherefore,  into  the  Caftle 
for  himfelf  he  goes  (it  was  that  which  Shaddai 
built  in  Manfoul  for  his  own  delight  and  pieafur-e;) 
This  now  became  a  den  for  Giant  Diabolus. 

Now,  having  got  pofleflionofthisftately  palace 
or  caftle,  what  doth  he  but  make  it  a  garrifon  for 
himfelf,  and  ftrengthens  and  fortifies  it  with  all. 
forts  of  proviilon  againll  the  King  Shaddai,  or 
thofe  that  mould  endeavour  the  regaining  of  i( 
to  him  and  his  obedience  again. 

This  done,  but  not  thinking  himfelf  yet  fecure- 
He  new  mo-  enough,  in  the  next  place,!]  e  bethinks 
delleth  the  himfelf  of  new  modelling  the  Town  ; 
Town  and  fo  he  does,  fetting  up  one,   and 

putting  down  another,  at  pleafure.  Wherefore, 
my  Lord  Mayor,  whofe  name  was  my  Lord  Un- 
My  Lord  deritanding,  and  Mr.  Recorder, 
Mayor  put  whofe  name  was  Mr.  Conference, 
out  offfocththok  he  puts  out  of  place  and  power* 


24  Thk    HOLY   WAR. 

As  for  my  Lord  Mayor,  though  he  was  an  un- 
demanding man,  and  one  too  that  had  complied 
with  the  red  ofrhetownof  Manfoulin  admitting 
of  thcGiant  into  the  Town,  yet  Diabolus  thought 
2  Cor.  x.  4,  5.     not  tit  to  let  him  abide  in  his  for- 
mer luitre  and  glory,  becaufe  he  was   a    feeing 
man  :  wherefore  he  darkened  him,  not  only  by 
taking  from  him  his  office   and   power,    but   by 
building  of  an  high  and  it  rong  tower  juft  between 
the  funs'  reflections    and   the   windows  of  my 
Lord's  palace  :  by  which  means  his  houfe  and  all, 
Efh.iw.  1  8, 19.     and  the  whole  of  his  habitation, 
was  made  as  dark  as  darknefs  itfelf.     And   thus, 
*being  alienated  from  the  light,  he  became  as  one 
that  was  born  blind.  To  this  his  houfe  my  Lord 
was  confined  as  to  a  prifon  ;  nor  might  he  upon 
his  parole  go  further  than  within  his  own  bounds. 
And  now,  had  he  had  an  heart  to  do  for  Man- 
foul,  what  could  he  do  for  it,  or   wherein   could 
he  be  profitable  to  her  ?    So   then,   fo   long   as 
Manfoul  was  under  the  power  and  government  of 
Diabolus   (and  fo  long  it  was  under  him  as  it  was 
obedient  to  him,  which  was  even  until  by  a  war 
it  was  refcued  out  of  his  hand)  fo  long  my  Lord 
Mayor  was  rather  an  impediment  in,  than  an  ad- 
vantage to,  the  famous  town  of  Manfoul. 

As  for  Mr.  Recorder,before  the  Town  was  ta- 
¥he  Recor-  ken  he  was  a  man   well   read   in    the 
4er  put  out  laws  of  his  King,  and  alfo   a   man   of 
t>f 'place,     courage  and  faithfulnefs  to  fpeak  truth 
on  every  occafionj  and  he  had  a  tongue  asbravely 
h-ung  as  he  had  an    head  filled   with  judgment. 
Now, this  man  Diabolus  could  by  no  means  abide, 
becaufe,t hough  he  gave  hisconfent  to  h\-  cem'n 
into  the  Town, yet  he  could  not,by  all 
trials,  ftratagems,  and  devices,  that 'he 
make  htm  wholly  his  own.    True,  lie  vv 


The    HOLY    WAR.  25 

degenerated  from  his  former  King,  and  alfo  much 
pleafed  with  many  of  the  Giant's  laws  and  fervice; 
but  all  this  would  not  do,  forafmuch  as  he  was 
not  wholly  his.  He  would  now  and  then  think 
He  fome-  upon  Shaddai,  and  have  a  dread  of 
times  [peaks  his  law  upon  him  ;  and  then  he  would 
for  his  fir  ft  fpeak  with  a  voice  as-  great  againll 
King,  Diabolus  as  when  a  lion  roareth*  yea, 

and  would  alfo  at  certain  times,  when  his  fits 
were  upon  him  (for  you  muft  know  that  fome- 
times  he  had  terrible  fits)  make  the  whole  town 
of  Manfoul  make  with  his  voice  :  and  therefore 
the  now  king  of  Manfoul  could  not  abide  him. 

Diabolus  therefore  feared  the  Recorder  more 
than  any  that  was  left  alive  in  the  town  of  Man- 
foul, becaufe,  as  I  faid,  his  words  did  make  the 
whole  Town  ;  they  were  like  the  rattling  thunder, 
and  alfo  like  thunder-claps.  Since,  therefore,  the 
Giant  could  not  make  him  wholly  his  own,  what 
doth  he  do  but  ftudies  all  that  he  could  to  debauch 
He  is  more  the  old  gentleman,  and  by  debauch— 
debauched  cry  to  Hifflfefrjiis  mind,  and  morehar- 
than  before,  den  his  hearratevays  of  vanity.  And 
as  he  attempted,  fo  fte  accompli  fhed  his  dcfign  ;  he 
debauched  the  man  by  little  and  little, fo  drew  him 
into  fin  and  wickednefs,that  at  lafl  he  was  not  only 
debauched  as  at  firft,  and  fo  by  con feque nee  defi- 
led, but  was  almofr.  (at  lafl,  I  fayj  paff,  all  con- ' 
fcience  of  fin.  And  this  was  the  farrheft  Diabo- 
lus could  go.  Wherefore  he  berhinks  him  of ano- " 
ther  project,  and  that  was  to  perfuade  the  men  of 
the  Town  that  Mr.  Recorder  was  mad,  and  fo  not 
•to  be  regarded.  And  for  this  he  urged  his  firs,' 
and:  he  be  himfelf,    why   doth    he  not  do 

thus  always  ?  But,  quoth  he,  as  all  mad  folk  have 
.their  fits,  and  in  them  their    raving   language,  (o 
bath  this  old  and   doting-  gentleman.     Thus^  by 


26  The  HOLY  WAR. 

one  means  or  another,  he  quickly  got  Manfoul' to 
The  Town  flight,  neglecl,  and  defpife,  whatever 
taken  off  Mr.  Recorder  could  fay.  For,  befides 
from  heed-  what  already  you  have  heard,  Diabo- 
ingofhim.  lus  had  a  way  to  make  the  old  gentle- 
man, when  he  was  merry,  unfay  and  deny  what  he 
in  his  fits  had  affirmed  :  and  indeed  this  was  the 
How  con-  next  way  to  make  himfelf  ridiculous, 
fcience  be-  and  to  caufethat  no  man  mould  regard 
tomes  fo  him.  Alfo  now  he  never  fpake  freely 
ridiculous,  for  King  Shaddai,  but  always  by  force 
as  with  car-and  conilrainc.  Befides,  he  would  at 
nal  men  one  time  be  hot  againfl  that  at  which 
//  //•  at  another  he  would  hold  his  peace  ; 

fo  uneven  was  he  now  in  his  doings.  Sometimes 
he  would  be  as  if  faft  afleep,  and  again  fometimes 
a?  dead,  even  then  when  the  whole  town  of  Man- 
foul  was  in  her  career  after  vanity,  and  in  her 
dance  after  the  Giant's  pipe. 

Wherefore,  fometimes  when  Man  foul  did  ufe  to 
be  frighted  with  the  thundering  voice  of  the  Re- 
corder that  was,  and  when  they  did  tellDiabolus  of 
it,  he  would  anfwer,  that  what  the  old  gentleman 
faid  was  neither  of  love  to  him  nor  pity  to  them, 
but  of  a  foolifh  fondnefs  that  he  had  to  be  prating : 
and  fo  would  hum,  (till,  and  put  all  to  quiet  again. 
And,  that  he  might  leave  no  argument  unurged 
that  might  tend  to  make  them  fecure,  he  faid,  and 
faid  it  often,  "  O  Manfoul,  confider,  that,  not- 
withtlanding  the  old  gentleman's  rage,  and  the 
rattle  of  his  high  and  thundering  words,  you 
hear  nothing  of  Shaddai  himfelf,"  (when  Jiar  and 
deceiver  that  he  was,  every  outcry  of  Mr.  Re- 
corder againfl  the  fin  of  Manfoul  was  the  voice  of 
God  in  him  to  them.)  But  he  goes  on  and  fays, 
Svitanica/    "  You   fee    that    he   values  not  the 


letoric.       lofs  nor   rebellion  of  the   town'   o\ 


The  HOLY  WAR. 
Manfoul,  nor  will  he  trouble  himielf  with  calling  * 
of  his  town  to  a  reckoning  for  their  giving 
of  themfelves  to  me.  He  knows  that,  though 
ye  were  his,  now  you  are  lawfully  mine ;  lb, 
leaving  us  one  to  another,  he  now  hath  fhaken  his 
hands  of  us.  Moreover,  O  Manfoul,"  quoth  he, 
"  confider  howl  have  ferved  you, even  totheutter- 
moft  of  nay  power  ;  and  that  with  the  bell  that  I 
have,could  ger,or  procure  for  you  in  all  the  world  : 
befides,  I  dare  fay,  that  the  laws  and  cuftoms  that 
you  now  are  under,  and  by  which  you  do  homage 
to  me,  do  yield  you  more  iblace  and  content  than 
did  the  Paradife  that  at  fir  ft  you  poffefled.  Your 
His  flat-  liberty  alio,  as  yourlelves  do  very  well 
teries.  know,  has  been  greatly  widened  and 
enlarged  by  me  :  whereas  I  found  you  a  pent-up 
people,  I  have  not  laid  any  reftraint  upon  you  ; 
you  have  no  law,  ftatute,  or  judgment,  of  mine  to 
fright  you  ;  1  call  none  of  you  to  account  for  your 
~    r  .  doings  except  the  madman, you  know 

J  who  mean  :  I  have  granted  you  to  live 

eachlman  like  a  prince  in  his  own,evenwithas  lit- 
tle controul  from  me  asl  myfelf  have  from  you." 

And  thus  would  Diabolus  hnfh  up  and  quiet 
the  town,  of  Manfoul,  when  the  Recorder  that 
was  did  at  times  moleft  them  ;  yea,  and  with  fuch 
Menfome-  curfed  orations  as  thefe,  would. fet  the 
times  angry  whole  Town  in  a  rage  and  fury  againft 
ivith  there  the  old  gentleman.  Yea,  the  rafcal 
confeiences.  crew,  at  lbmetimes,  would  be  for  de- 
ftroying  of  him.  They  have  often  wiihed  (in  my 
hearing)  that  he  had  lived  a  thoufand  miles  off 
from  them  ;  his  company,his  words,yea,  the  fight 
of  him, and  efpecially  when  they  remembered  how 
in  old  times  he  did  ufe  to  threaten  and  condemn 
them  (for  all  he  was  now  fo  debauched)  did  ter 
rify  and  afflict  them  fore. 

C    2 


28  The    HOLY    WAR. 

But  all  wiflies  were  vain  ;  for  I  do  not  know 
how,  unlefs  by  the  pjwer  of  Shaddai,  and  his  wif- 
dom,  he  was  preferved  in  being  amongit  them. 
Befldes,  his  houfe  was  as  ftrong  as  a  caftle,  and 
ftood  hard  by  a  ftronghold  of  the  town.  Moreover 
///  thoughts,  if  at  any  time  any  of  the  crew  or  rab- 
ble attempted  to  make  him  away,  he  could  pull 
Of  fears,  up  the  fluices,  and  let  in  fuch  floods  as 
would  drown  all  round  about  him. 

But  to  leave  Mr.  Recorder,  and  to  come  to  my 
~>j     '■  :,.  Lord  Willbewill,  another  of  the  gentry 
•'  of  the  famous  town  of  Manfoul.     This 
Willbewill  was  as  high-born  as  any  man  in  Man- 
foul,  and   was   as  much,  if  not  more,  a  freeholder 
than  many  of  them  were  :  befides,  if  I  remember 
my  tale  aright,  he  had  fome  priviledge  peculiar  to 
himfelf  in  the  famous  town  of  Manfoul.  Now,  to- 
gether with  thefe,  he  was  a  man  of  great  iirength, 
'  resolution,  and  courage,  nor  in  his  occafion  could 
any  turn   him  away.     But  I  fay,  whether  he  was 
proud  of  his  eftate,  privileges,  itrength,  or   what 
(bin  fare  It  was  through  the  pride  of  fomething) 
he  fcorns  now  to  be  a  flave  in  Manfoul,  and  there- 
es  to  bear  office  under  Diabolus,  that 

might  (fuch  an  one  as  he  was)  be  a  petty  ruler 

i  governor  in  Manfoul.  And  (headftrong  man 
that  he   was)  thus  he  began    betimes  ;  for   this 

in,  when  Diabolus  did  make  his  oration  at  Ear- 
gate,  was  one  of  the  firft  that  was  for  confenting 
to. his  words,  and  for  accepting  of  his  counfel  as 

ole.fomc,  and  that  was  for  the  opening  cf  the 

:e,  and  for  letting  him  into  the  Town  ;  where- 
fore Diabolus  had  a  kindnefs  for  him,  and  there- 
fore he  defigned  for  him  a  place  ;  and  perceiving 
the  valour  and  ftoutnefs  of  the  man,  he  cove 
to  have  him  for  one  of.his  great  ones,  to 

in  matters  of  the  higheiu  concern. 


The    HOLY   WAR;  29 

So  he  fent  for  him,  and  talked  with  him  of  thac 
i  fecret  "matter  that  lay  in  his  breaft  ;  but  there 
needed  not  much  perfuaiion  in  the  cafe  :  for  as  at 
The  will  firfl  he' was  willing  that  Diabolus  lhould 
takes  p lace  be  let  into  the  Town,  fo  now  he  was  as 
under  Dia-  willing  to  ferve  him  there.  When  the 
bolus,  tyrant  therefore  perceived  the  willing- 

nefs  of  my  Lord  to  ferve  him,  and  that  his  mind 
flood  bending  that  way,  he  forthwith  made  him 
rra  PI  n  Captain  of  the  caltIe?Governor  of  the 
«~  p'  *  wall,  and  Keeper  of  the  gates  of  Man- 
-'  foul  :   yea  there  was   a   claufe   in  his 

commiflion,  "That  nothing  without  him  fhould 
be  done  in  all  the  town  of  Manfoul."  So  that 
now,  next  to  Diabolus  himfelf,  who  but  my  Lord 
WiiJbewill  in  all  the  town  of  Manfoul  !  nor  could 

any  thing  now  be  done  but  at  his  will 
Rom.vui.  7.  and  pleafure,  throughout  the  town  of 

Manfoul.  He  had  alio  one  Mr.  Mind 
Mr.  Mind  for  his  clerk,  a  man  to  fpeak  on  every 
My  Lord's  way  like  his  matter  ;  for  he  and  his 
clerk.  Lord  were  in  principle  one,  and   in 

practice  not  far  afunder.  And  now  was  Manfoul 
brought  under  to  purpoie,  and  made  to  fulfil  the 
Eph.  ii.  2,  3.    lufts  of  the  will  and  of  the  mind. 

But  it  will  not  be  out  of  my  thoughts  what  a  des- 
perate one  this  Willbewill  was,  when  power  was- 
put  into  his  hand.  Firit,  he  flatly  denied  that  he- 
owed  any  fuit  or  fervice  to  his  former  Prince  and 
liege  Lord.  This  done,  in  the  next  place,  he. 
took  an  oath,  fwore  fidelity  to  his  great  mailer 
The  carnal  Diabolus.  And  then,  beingrtated  and 
tvilfoppo-  and  fettled  in  his  places,  offices,  ad- 
feth  con-  vancements  and  preferments  ;  oh  !  you 
fclence  cannot  think,  unlets  you  had  fce.n  it, 
the  ftrahge  work  that  this  workman  made  in  the 
town  of  Manfoul. 
G  3 


3o  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Firft.  He  maligned  Mr.  Recorder  to  death  \  he 

xt  l  -        *  would  neither  endure  to  lee  him,  nor 
Neh.  ix.  26.       ,  .  j      - 1  •  1       u 

to  hear   tne  words  or  his  mouth  ;  he 

would  ihut  his  eyes  when  he  law  him,  and  flop  his 

ears  when  he  heard  him  fpeak.  Alfo  he  could  nor 

endure  that  fo  much  as  a  fragment  of  the   law  of 

Shaddai  ihould  be  any  where  feen   in  the  Town: 

for  example,    his  clerk  Mr.  Mind  had  fome  old, 

renr,and  torn  parchments  of  the  law  of  good  Shaddai 

in  his  houfe  ;  but  when  Willbewill  faw  them   he 

caft  them  behind  his  back.     True,  Mr.  Recorder 

had  fome  of  the  laws  in  his  fludy,  but   my   Lord 

Corrupt         could  by  no  means  come  at  them  :  he 

iv III  loves  a  alfo  thought  and  faid,   that  the   win- 

dark  under-    -dows  of  my  old  Lord  Mayor's  houfe 

fiqttding.  were  always  too  light  for  the  profit 
of  the  town  of  Manfoul.  The  light  of  a  candle  he 
could  not  endure.     Now,  nothing   at   all  pleafed 

.  Willbewill  but  what  pleafed  Diabolus  his  lord. 
There  was  none  like  him  to  trumpet  about  the 

,flreets  the  brave  nature,   the   wife   conduct,    and 
;t  glory, of  the  KingDiabolus  :  he  wouldrange 

•and  rove  throughout  all  the  ftreets  of  Marribul  to 

-cry  up  his  illuflrious  Lord   ;    and   would    make 
■.felf  even  as  an  abject,  among  the  bafe  and  rat 

,&-  oil  crew,  to  cry  up  his   valiant   prince. 

]i0l^u  And,  I  fay,  when  and  wherefoever  he 
*  found  thefe  vaiT.ls,  he  v  "1d  even  make 
himfelf  as  one  of  them.  In  all  ill  l  ,..,fes  he  would 
act  without  bidding,  and  do  miichief  without 
commandment. 

The  Lord  Willbewill  alfo  had  a  deputy  under 

•.him,  and  his  name  was  Mr.  Affection  ;  one  that  was 
aho  greatly  debauched  in  his  principles,    and    an- 

•  fwerable  thereto  in  his  life  :  he  was  wholly  given- 

r>    „   .      ,     to  the  flelli,  and  therefore  they  called 

htm  Vi  e  Afrechor..     Now,  there  was 


The    HOLY    WAR. 

he,  and  one  Carnal  Luft,  the  daughter  of  Mr.  Mind, 
"  (Like  to  like,  quoth  the  Devil  to  the  Collier)" 
■A match  be-  that  fell  in  love,  and  made  a  match, 
twixt  Vile  and  were  married  :  and,  as  I  take  ir, 
Ajfeftion  they  had  feveral  children,  as  Impu- 
and  Carnal  dent,  Blackmouth,  and  Hate-reproof  ; 
Luft.  thefe  three  were  black  boys  :  and  be- 

sides thefe  they  had  three  daughters,  as  Scorn- 
truth,  and  Slight-God,  and  the  name  of  the  young- 
eft  was  Revenge  ;  thefe  were  all  married  in  the 
Town,  and  alio  begot  and  yielded  many  bad  brats, 
too  many  to  be  here  inferted.  But,  to  pafsby  this. 

When  the  Giant  had  thus  ingarrifoned  himfelf 
in  the  town  of  Manfoul,  and  had  put  down  and 
ict  up  whom  he  thought  good,  he  betakes  himfelf 
to  defacing.  Now,  there  was  in  the  market-place 
of  manfoul,  and  alio  upon  the  gates  of  the  Caftle, 
an  image  of  the  blefTed  King  Shaddai  ;  this  imago 
was  fo  exactly  engraven  (and  it  was  engraven  in 
gold)  that  it  did  the  moil  refemble  Shaddai  him- 
felf of  any  thing  that  then  was  extant  in  the  world  : 
this  he  bafely  commanded  to  be  defaced,  and  it 
H/h  N»  was  as  Safely  done  by  the  hand  of  Mr, 
,  ,./"  No-truth.  Now,  you  mud  know,  tha:. 
as  Diabolus  had  commanded,  and  thai: 
by  the  hand  of  Mr.  No-truth,  the  image  of  Shad- 
dai  was  defaced.  He  like  wife  gave  order  that  the 
fame  Mr.  No-truth  mould  fet  up  in  its  ftead -the 
horrid  and  formidable  image  of  Diabolus,  to  the 
great  contempt  of  the  former  King,  and  debaiing 
of  his  town  of  Manfoul, 

Moreover,  Diabolus  made  r  of  all  remains 

All  Lavj-     of  the  laws    and  es    of  Shaddai 

books  J j-      that  could' be  fo  the   town    of 

ftroyeil  that  m.i n foul  ;    to  is    contained 

either  the  d  >r:;L;    with 

fity  all  civil  its;  alio 


32  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

relative  feverities  he  fought  to  extinguifh.  To  be 
fhort,  there  was  nothing  of  the  remains  of  good 
in  Manfoul  which  he  and  Willbewill  fought  not 
to  detlroy  ;  for  their  defign  was  to  turn  Manfoul 
into  a  brute,  and  to  make  it  like  to  the  fenfual 
low  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  No-truth. 

When  he  had  deftroyed  what   laws  and   gooc 
orders  he  could,  then,  further  to  effect  his  defignr 
namely,    to    alienate   manfoul  from  Shaddai   her 
King,  he  commands,  and  they  fet  up  his  own  vain 

<v  ,    ..   edicts  it  itntes,  and  commandments,  in 

*  '  all  places  of  refort  or  concourfe  in  Man- 

foul,  to  wit,  fuch  as  gave  liberty  to  the  "  lulls  of 
the  fleih,  the  lulls  of  the  eyes,  and  the  pride  of 
life  ;  which  are  not  of  Shaddai,  but  of  the  world.,r 
He  encouraged,  countenanced,  and  promoted,  laf- 
civioufnefs  and  all  ungodlinefs  there.  Yea,  much 
more  did  Diabolus  to  encourage  wickednefs  in  the 
.town  of  manfoul  ;  he  promifed  them  peace,  con- 
tent, joy,  and  blifs,  in  doing  his  commands  :  and 
that  they  mould  never  be  called  to  an  account  for 
their  not  doing  the  contrary.  (And  let  this  ferve 
to  give  a  tafle  to  them  that  love  to  hear  tell  of 
what  is  done  beyond  their  kno\vledge>  afar  off  in- 
other  countries.) 

Now,  Manfoul  being  wholly  at  his  beck,  and 
brought  wholly  to  his  bow,  nothing  was  heard  or 
Teen  therein  but  that  which  tended  to  fet  up  him. 

But  now,  he  having  difabled  the  Lord  Mayor 
and  Mr.  Recorder  from  bearing  of  office  in  man- 
foul, and  feeing  that  the  Town  before  he  came  to 
it  was  the  moll  ancient  of  corporations  in  the 
world,  and  fearing,  if  he  did  not  maintain  great- 
nefs,  they  at  any  time  ihould  object  that  he  had 
done  them  an  injury  ;  therefore,  I  fay  (that  they 
might  fee  that  he  did  not  intend  to  le fieri  rji 
grandeur,  or  to  take  from  them  any  of  their 


The    HOLY    WAR.  33 

They  have  vantageous  things)  he  did  chufe  for 
.  a  nexu  Lord  them  a  Lord  Mayor  and  a  Recorder 
Mayor,  and  himfelf,  and  fuch  as  contented  them 
a  new  Re-  all  at  the  heart,  and  fuch  alfo  as  pleaf- 
c order.  ed  him  wondrous  well. 

The  name  of  the  mayor  that  was  of  Diabolus's 

~*i     i  making  was  the  Lord  Luftings,  a  man 

-   r      ,"»-  (      that  had  neither  eyes    nor    ears  ;  all 

a)'    t{lat  he  ^id,  whether  as  a  man,  or  as 

an  officer,  he  did  it  naturally  as  doth 

the  beaft.     And  that    which    made  him   yet  the 

more  ignoble,    though   not   to  man  foul,   yet   ta 

Dtthem  that  beheld  and  were  grieved  for   its   rains, 

I  was,  that  he  never  could  favour  good,  but  evil. 

The  Recorder  was  one  whoffe   name  was    For-* 

'The  new    gergood  5  and  a  vei7   forry   fellow-  he 

I  j?,,r,  j       was  :  he  could   remember   nothing- b- 
I  Kecorder.       .r  .  .  •  .  .     .        .  ,      .  ,.°;A 

milchief,   and  to   do  it  with    dehgfrl  % 

he  was   naturally  prone  to   do   things  that   sft 
hurtful,  even  hurtful  to    the   town  of  manfoul,. 
and  to  all  the  dwellers  theref    Thefe*  two,  there- 
fore, by  their  power  and   practice;    example  and. 
Thouv't*  mi^eSUPon  evil, did  much  more  grammar- 
*    J*  and  fettle  the  common  people   in  hurt-' 
ful  ways  ;  for  who  doth  not  perceive   but,  wbetv" 
thofe  that  fit  aloft  are  vile  and  corrupt  themfelves:,\ 
:;  they  corrupt  the  whole  region  and  country  where 
•  they  are  ? 

Befides  thefe,  Diabolus  made  feveral   Burgef: 
He  doth         and  Aldermen    ip  manfoul  ;    fuch 
make  them  out  of  whom  the  town,  when  it  nc 
I  new  Alder-  ed,   might    chufe    them    officers,  go— 
men,  and      vernors,  and '  magiftrates.      And  thefe- 
are  the  names  of  the  chief  of  them  ; 
M*\  Incredulity,Mr.  Haughty,  Mr.  Swearing,Mr. 
WlioFing/z/r.  Hardheart,  Mr.  Pitilefs,  My.  Fury, 
-truth,  Mr.  Stand-to-lies^Mr.  Falfc-pc\. 


34  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Mr.  Drunkennefs,  Mr.  Cheating,  Mr.  Atheifm, 
thirteen  in  all.  Mr.  Incredulity  is  the  eldeft,  and 
Mr.  Atheifm  the  youngeit,  of  the  company. 

There  was  alio  an  election  of  common-council- 
men,  and  others  ;  as  Bailiffs, Serjeants,Conftables, 
and  others,  but  all  of  them  like  to  thole  afore- 
named, being  either  fathers,  brothers,  coufins,  or 
nephews,  to  them  ;  whole  names,  for  brevity's 
fake,  I  omit  to  mention. 

When  the  Giant  had  thus  far  proceeded  in  his 
He  build-  work,  in  the  next  place,  he  berookhim 
eth  three  to  build  fomeftrong  holds  in  the  town  -r 
(Irong  holds y  and  he  built  three  that  feemed  to  be 
their  names  impregnable.  The  firft  he  called  the 
and  gov >er-  Hold  of  Defiance,  becaufe  it  was  made 
nors.  to  command  the  whole  Town,  and  to 

keep  it  from  the  knowledge  of  its  ancient  King. 
The  fecond  he  called  midnight-hold,  becaufe  it 
was  builded  on  purpofe  to  keep  manfoul  from 
the  true  knowledge  of  itfelf.  The  third  was  call- 
ed Sweetiin-hold,  beVaufe  by  that  he  fortified 
manfoul  againft  all  defires  of  good.  The  firft 
of  thefe  holds  flood  clofc  by  Eye-gate,  that,  as 
much  as  might  be,  light  might  be  darkened  there. 
The  fecond  was  builded  hard  by  the  old  caftle,  to 
jhe  end  that  that  might  be  made  more  blind,  if  pof- 
fible.     And  the  third  flood  in  the  market-place. 

He  that  Diabolus  made  governor  over  the  firft 
of  thefe  was  one  Spite-God,  a  moll  blafphemous 
wretch  ;  he  came  with  the  whole  rabble  of  them 
that  came  againfl  manfoul  at  firft,  and  was  hinifclf 
one  of  themfelves.  He  that  was  made  the  governor 
of  midnight-hold  was  one  Love-no-light  ;  he  was 
alfo  of  them  that  came  firft  againft  the  Town.  And 
he  that  was  made  the  governor  of  the  hold  called 
Svveetfin-hold  was  one  whole  name  was  Love- 
flefh  ;  he  was  alfo  a  very  lewd  fcllow1  but  not  of 


The.HOL  Y  WAR.  3y 

'  that  country  where  the  other  are  bound.  This 
fellow  could  find  more  fweetnefs  when  he  flood 
fucking  of  a  lull  than  he  did  in  all  the  Paradifc 
of  God. 
And  now  Diabolus  thought  himfelf  fafe.  He  had 
taken  Manfoul ;  he  had  ingarrifoned  himfelf  there- 
in ;  he  had  put  down  the  old  officers,  and  had  fet 
up  new  ones  ;  he  had  defaced  the  image  of  Shad- 
tx-  *  /  dai,and  had  fet  up  his  own  ;  he  had  fpoi- 
Dta  o  us  jcd  the  ojd  jaw  booi^  ancj  hacj  proniot- 
:as  ma  e  ^  j^s  own  vajn  ]jes  .  jie  hacj  made  him 
neJ  *  new  Magiftrates,  and  fet  up  new  alder- 
men ;  he  had  buik  his  new  holds,  and  had  man- 
ned them  for  himfelf:  and  all  this  he  did  to  make 
himfelf  fecure,  in  cafe  the  good  Shaddai,  or  his 
Son,  fhould  come  to  make  an,.ificurfion  upon  him* 

Now,  you  may  well  think,  tfjtt,  long  before  this 
Tidings  time,  word,  by  fome  or  other,  could 
carried  to  not  but  be  carried  to  the  good  King 
the  Co  urt  of  Shaddai ,  how  his  Manfoul,  in  the  con- 
'what  hap-  tinent  of  Univejj|f,  was  Toft  ;  and  that 
penedtv  the  runagate  Gfarit  Diabolus,  once  one 
Manfoul.  of  his  Majefly's  fervants,  had,  in  rebel- 
lion againft  the  King,  made  fure  thereof  for  him- 
felf :  yea,  tidings  were  carried  and  brought  to  the 
King  thereof,  and  that  to  a  very  circumftance. 

As  firft,how  Diabolus  came  upon  Manfoul  (they 
being  a  fimple  people,  and  innocent)  with  craft; 
fubtilty,  lies,  and  guile  :  Item,  ihat  he  had  treach- 
eroufly  flain  the  right  noble  &  valiant  Capt.  their 
Capt.  Rcfiltance,  as  he  flood  upon  the  gate  with 
the  reft  of  the  townfmen  :  Item,  how  brave  Lord 
Innocent  fell  down  dead  (with  grief,  fome  fay,  or 
with  being  poifoned  with  the  flinking  breath  of 
,  Ill-paufe,  as  fay  others)  at  the  hearing  of  his  juit 
Lord  and"  rightful  Prince  Shaddai  fo  abufed  by  the 
jnoiuh  of  fo  filthy  a  Diabolonian  as  that  varlet  111- 


-6  The     HOLY    WAR. 

paufe  was.  The  meffenger  farther  told,thar,after 
this  Ill-paufe  had  made  a  ihort  oration  to  the  towns- 
men in  behalf  of  Diabolus  his  mailer,  the  fimple 
Town, believing  that  what  was  laid  wastrue,with 
one  confent  did  open  Ear-gate,  the  chief  gate  of 
the  Corporation, and  did  lethim  with  his  crew  into 
a  poffeilion  of  the  famous  town  of  Manfoul.  He 
further  fhewed  how  Diabolus  had  ferved  the  Lord 
Mayor  and  Mr.  Recorder,  to  wit.  that  he  had  put 
them  from  all  place  of  power  and  trull  :  Item,  he 
fhewed  alfo,  that  my  Lord  Wilibewill  was  turned 
a  very  rebel  and  runagate,andthat  fo  was  one  Mr. 
Mind  his  clerk  ;  and  that  they  two  did  range  and 
revel  it  all  the  Town  over,  and  teach  the  wicked 
ones  their  ways.  He  faid,  moreover,  that  this  Wili- 
bewill was  put  into  great  trull  ;  and  particularly, 
that  Diabolus  had  put  into  Willbewill's  hand  all 
the  firong places  in  Manfoul  ;  and  that  Mr.  Affec- 
tion was  made  my  Lord  WillbewiU's  deputy  in 
his  molt  rebellious  affairs  ;  yea,  faid  the  meffenger, 
this  monfter,  LordWillbewill,  has  openly  difa- 
vowed  his  King  Shaddai,  and  hath  horribly  given 
his  faith,  and  plighted  his  truth,  to  Diabolus. 

Alfo,  faid  the  meffenger,  befides all  this,  thenew 
king,  or  rather  rebellious  tyrant,  over  the  Once  fa- 
mous, but  now  perifhing,town  of  Manfoul  has  fet 
up  a  Lord  Mayor  and  a  Recorder  of  his  own.  For 
Mayor  he  has  fet  up  one  Mr.  Luftings,and  for  Re- 
corder Mr.  Forgetgood,two  of  the  vileil  of  all  the 
town  of  Manfoul.  This  faithful  meffenger  alfo 
proceeded  and  fold  what  a  fet  of  new  Burgeffes 
Diabolus  had  made  ;  alfo,  that  he  had  builded  fe- 
ver al  firong  forts,  towers,  and  flrongholds,in  Man- 
foul. Me  told, too  the  which  I  had  almofl  forgot, 
how  Diabolus  had  put  the  town  of  Manfoul  into 
arms,  the  better  to  capacitate  them  on  his  b chair 
to  make  refinance  againft  Shaddai   their  K 


The    HOLY    WAR.  37 

fhould  he  come  to  reduce  them   to  their  former 
obedience. 

Now,  this  tidings-teller  did  not  deliver  his  re- 
lation of  things  in  private,  but  in  open  court,  the 
King  and  his  Son,  high  lords,  chief  captains,  and 
Grief  at  court  nobles,  being  all  there  prcicnt  to 
to  hear  the  hear.  But,  by  that  they  had  heard  the 
tidings.  whole  of  the  ftory,  it  would  have  a- 

mazed  one  to  have  feen,  he  had  been  there  to 
behold  it,  what  for  row  and  grief,  and  compunc- 
tion of  fpirit,  there  was  among  all  forts,  to  think 
that  famous  manfoul  was  now  taken  :,  only  the 
King  and  his  Son  forefaw  all  this  long  before,  yea, 
and  fufficiently  provided  for  the  relief  of  manfoul, 
though  they  told  not  every  body  theieof.  Yer, 
becaufe  they  alio  would  have  a  (hare  in  condoling 
of  the  mifery  of  manfoul,  therefore  they  aifo  did, 
f,  .  ,  and  that  at  a  rate  of  the  highefl  de- 
r'  gree,  bewail  the  lciing  of  manfoul. 
The  King  faid  plainly,' That  it  grieved  him  at  the 
heart  ;  and  you  may  be  fure  that  his  Son  was  not 
a  whit  behind  him.  Thus  gave  they  conviction  to 
all  about  them  that  they  had  love  and  compaffiort 
for  the  famous  town  of  manfoul.  Well,  when  the 
King  and  his  Son  were  retired  into  the  privy  cham- 
ber, there  they  again   confulted  about    what  they 

Thefecretsofh*d  de%ned  bef°re>  t0  wit,  "That  a* 

hi    t        C      manf°lll  Should'  in    time  be   fuffered 

T    r°J  •    to  be  loft,    fo  as   certainly  it  motifd 

be  recovered  again  ;"  recovered,  I   fay,  in  fuch  a 

way,  as  that  both  the  King  and  his  Son  woulcj'gec 

The  Son    f     ^emfelves   eternal  fame   and  glory 

q   i         *     thereby.     Wherefore,  after  this  con- 

fult,  the  Son  of  Shaddai  (a  ivveet  and 

comely  perfon,  and  one  that  had  always  great  a£ 

fection  for  thofe  that  were  in  affliction, but  one  that 

had  mortal  enmity  m  his  heart  agaiaft   Diabolus, 

D 


S5  The    HOLY    WAR', 

beeaufe  he  wab  dcfigncd  for  it,  and  becaufc  I-c 
Ifi,  xlix.  5.  fought  hiscrown  and  dignity)  this  Son 
i.  15.  of  Shaddai,  1  fay,  having  ilricken 
Hof.  x i i i .  14,  hands  with  his  Father,  and  promifed 
that  he  would  be  his  fervant  to  recover  his  man- 
foul  again,  flood  ..by  his  refolution,  nor  would  he 
repent  of  the  fame.  The  purport  of.  which  agree- 
A  brave  de~  ment  was  this,  to  wit,  "  That  at  a 
fign  on  foot  certain  time,  prefixed  by  both,  the 
for  the  town  King's  Son  fhould  take  a  journey  into, 
bf  manfoul.  the  country  of  Univerfe,  and  there, 
in  a  way  of  jultice  and  equity,  by  making 
of  amends  for  the  follies  of  manfoul,  he  fhould  lay 
a  foundation  of  her  perfect  deliverance  from  Dia- 
bolus,  and  from  his  tyranny." 

Moreover,  Emmanuel  refolved  to  make,  at  a 
time  convenient,  a  war  upon  the  Giant  Diabolus, 
even  while  he  was  pofTeired  of  the  town  of  man- 

W    f    rr  ,     foul    and    that   he   would  fairly,    by 
By  the  Holy    iX  ,     r  ,   _,     A  .       ,.     -* '     -Jc 

&&  r.        J    irrength  of  hand,    drive   him  out  of 

''0j  '  I; is  hold,  his  neft,  and  take  it  to  him- 

felt]  to  be  his  habitation. 

This  now  being. refolved  upon,  order  was  given 

„  tt  7        to  the  Lord  chief  fecretary  to  draw  up 

•  '■       a  fair  record  of  what  was  determined, 
'■/pes 

and  to  caufe  that  it  fhould  be  publiih- 

;n  all  the  corners  of  the  kingdom  of  Univerfe. 

(H*pft  hreviare  of  the  contents  thereof  you  may, 

afc,  take  here,  as  follows  : 

i]  men  know  who   are   concerned,  that 

:     the  Son  of  Shaddai  the  great  King  is 

1  i  c  c ov1 nnts '. 

'engaged,  by  covenant,  to  his  Father, 

bring  his  manfoul    to  him  again  ;    yea,  and   to 
put  manfoul  too, through  the  power  of  his  :m 
love,  into  a  far  better  and  more    happy  c.( 

n  it  was  in  before  it  was  taken  by  Di 
Thefe  papers,  theiefore^vepe  publimed  in  i 


The   HOLY    WAR.  39 

ral  places,  to  the  no  little  indexation  of  the  tyrant 
Diabolus  ;  for  now,  thought  he,  I  (hall  be  mo- 
kited,  and  my  habitation  will  be  taken  from  me. 

But  when  this  matter, I  mean  this  purpofe  of  tlic; 
King  and  his  Son,  did  fir  it  take  air  at  court,  who 
can  cell  how  the  high  lords,  thief  captains,  and 
noble. princes,  that  were  there  were  taken  with  the 

.  f      bufineis  ?    Firit,    they    whifpered  it 

mong  e  one  tQ  another  •  and  after  that  it  be- 
an&c  J#  gan  to  ring  01U  throughout  the  King's 

palace,  all  wondering  at  the   glorious   defign  that 
between  the  King  and  his  Son  was  on  loot  for  die 
miferable    town    of  manlbul.     Yea,  the  courtiers 
could  fcarce  do  any  thing,  either  for  the  King  6% 
kingdom,  but  they  would   mifc  with    the   doing 
•   thereof  a  noife  of  the  love  of  the   King   and 
Son  that  they  had  for  the  town  of  manlbul:    '■ 
■    Nor  could  thefe  lords, h%h-captains,  and  princes, 
be  content  to  keep  thefe  news  at  court  •  yea, 
fore  the  records   thereof  were   perfected,    ti 
Diabolus    fel  ves  came  down  and  told  it  in  Uni.v  e 
perplexed  at  At  lait  it  came  to  the  ears,  as  I 
the  news.       Diabolus,  to  his  no  little  :nt  %. 

for  you  muft  think  it  would  perplex 
of  fuch  a  defign  againit  him  :     well, 
few  caits  in  his  mind,    he  concluded,  upon    t-3 
four  things  : 

Firit,  That  thefe    news,    thefe  good  tidings 
He  conclude  poflible)  mould  be  kept  f; 
edonfeve-      of  the  town  ofmanfoul  : 
ral  things,     if  they  ihall  once  come  to  tiv 
ledge  that  Shkiddai   their    former    Kin  Em- 

manuel his  Son,  are  contriving  of  good  for  the 
town  ofmanfoul,  what  can  be  expected  by  me, 
but  that  man  foul  will  make  a  revolt  from  under 
my  hand  and  government, and  return  again  to  ■ 

Now,  to  accomplish  tnis  his  defign,  he  r 


4o  The    HOLY   WAR. 

Fir  ft  how  to  his  flattery  with  my  Lord  Willbewill, 
keep  the  and  alfo  gives  him  Arid:  charge  and 
jievjs  from  command,  that  he  mould  keep  watch 
man  foul.  by  day  and  by  night  at  all  the  gates 
of  the  Town,  efpecially  Ear-gate  and  Eye-gate  : 
for  I  hear  of  a  defign,  quoth  he,  a  defign  to  make 
us  all  traitors,  and  that  manibul  mull  be  reduced 
The  will  en-  to  its  firit  bondage  again.  I  hope  they 
gaged  againft  are  but  flying  ftories,  quoth  he  ; 
tie  Gofpel.  however  let  no  fuch  news  by  any 
means  be  let  into  manfoul,  left  the  people  be  de- 
jected thereat.  I  think,  my  Lord,  it  can  be  no 
welcome  news  to  you  ;  I  am  lure  it  is  none  to  me. 
And  I  think  that,  at  this  time,  it  mould  be  all  our 
wifdoms  and  care  to  nip  the  head  off  all  fuch  ru- 
mours as  fhall  tend  to  trouble  our  people  :  where- 
Good  thoughts .  fore  I  defire,  my  Lord,  that  you  will 
muft  he  kept  in  this  matter  do  asl  fay  :  Let  there 
out  of  the  town  be  ftrong  guards  daily  kept  at  every 
of  manful.  gate  of  the  Town  ;  Hop  alfo  and  ex- 
amine from  whence  fuch  come,  that  you  perceive 
do  from  far  come  hither  to  trade  ;  nor  let  them 
by  any  means  be  admitted  into  manfoul,  unlefs 
you  fhall  plainly  perceive  that  they  are  favourers  of 
*fjjr  our  excellent  government.  I  command 

fj    ^jJi'         moreover,  laid   Diabolus,   that   there 

tDOlnrktS  t       r  •  •         ;i  ii i  •  j 

■•J.       ,       be  ipies  continually  walking  up  and 

JJJ'       down  the  town   of  manfoul,  and  let 
in  the  lozvn     .         .  r  r         ,    , 

,  them  have  power  to  iupprels  and  de- 

J  fp  j     ftroy  any   that    they   fhall    perceive 

Jc  '    to    be  plotting   againft    us,    or   that 

fmili  prate   of   what   by  Shaddai   or  Emmanuel 

is  in  Lend  ed. 

This  therefore  was  accordingly  done  ;  my  Lord 

Willbewill  hearkened  to  his  lord  and  matter,  went 

willingly  after  his  commandment,  and,  with  all  the 

diligence  he  could,  kept  any  that  would  from  j 


Tar  HOLY    WAR.  41 

ing  out  abroad,  or  that  fought  to  bring  thefc  tid- 
ings to  manfoul  from  coming  into  the  Town. 
Secondly,  This  done,  in  the  next  place,  Diaboius, 

.  ■   ,  that  he  might  make  manfon  1  as  fure  as 

A  neiv  oath  ,  .  ,   9  .  .         r 

r  ,  he  could,  rrames  and  impoies    a   new 

tmpC  ed  up-        .         ,,        .,,  r  .' 

r  «    r  r,  oath  and  horrible  covenant  upon  the 

onman  qui.  ,  c  ,,  .      ,,-r,         ,     rn       ,, 

V  townsfolk,  to  wit,  "Thai  they  Ihould 

never  defert  him  nor  his  government,  nor  yet  be- 
tray him,  nor  feek  to  alter  his  laws  ;  but  that  they 
ihouldown,confefs,flandby,and  acknowledge  him 
for  their  rightful  King,  in  defiance  to  any  that  do, 
or  hereafter  mall,  by  any  pretence,  law  or  title 
whatever,  lay  claim  to  the  town  of  manfoul." 
Thinking,  belike,  that  Shaddai  had  not  power  to 
7r         ...  abfolve  them   from    this   covenant 

//.  XXVlll.  K.         .   ,     ,        .       .     ,  •   1  "L    ii- 

J  J     with  deatn,and  agreement  with  hell. 

Nor  did  the  filly  manfoul  itick  or  boggle  at  all  1 
molt  monitrous  engagement,  bur,  as  if  it  had  been 
a  fprat  in  the  mouth  of  a  whale,  they  fwalkxwe 
without  any  chewing.  Were  they  troubled  at  it  p 
nay,  they  rather  bragged  and  boailed  of  their 
hrave  fidelity  to  the  tyrant  their  pretended  king, 
fwearing  that  they  would  never  be   changelings, 
nor  forfake  their  old  lord  for  a  new. 

Thus  did  Diaboius  tie  poor  manfoul  fad.     But: 
Jealoufy,  that  never  thinks  itfelf  ftrong  enough . 
him, lathe  next  place,  upon  another  exploit,  which' 
was  yet  more,  if  poffible,  to  debauch  this  town 
manfoul  :  whereforehe  caufed,  by  the  har,; 
Odious  a-    Mr.  Filth,  an  odious,  naity,    kfciv' 
theiflical    piece  of  beaillincfs  to  be  drawn 
■pamphlets  writing,    and  to  be  fet  upon  the  Ca 
and  filthy    gates  ;   whereby    he  granted,  and  [ 
ballads  and  licence  to  all  his  true    and    truily    1 
■■    in     manfoul     to    do    whatsoever    H 
It  toilful  appetites  prompted  tl 

no  man   was  to  let,  him 


42  The    HOLY    WAR. 

controul  them,  upon  pain  of  incurring  the  difplea- 

iure  of  their  prince. 

Now  this  he  did  for  thefe  reafons  : 

i.  That  the  town  of  man  foul  might  be  yet  made 
r>  r  ^weaker  and  weaker,  and  fo  more  un- 
,.  if15 ^ able,  mould  tidings  come  that  their  re- 
i.  "  demotion  was  defigned,  to  believe,  hope, 
&'  or  confent  to  the  truth  thereof.  For 
Reafon  fays,  the  bigger  thefinner,  the  lefs  ground 
of  hopes  of  mercy. 

2.  The  fecond  reafon  was,  If  perhaps  Emmanuel 
the  Son  of  Shaddai  their  King,  by  feeing  the  hor- 
rible and  profane  doings  of  the  town  of  manfoul, 
might  repent,  though  entered  into  a  covenant  of 
redeeming  them,  of  purfuing  that  covenant  of  their 
redemption  ;  for  he  knew  that  Shaddai  was  holy, 
and  that  his  Son  Emmanuel  was  holy  :  yea,  he 
knew  it  by  woeful  experience;  for,  for  the  iniquity 
and  fin  of  Diabolus  was  he  call  from  the  higheft 
orbs.  Wherefore,  what  more  rational  than  for  him 
to  conclude  that  thus,  for  fin,  it  might  fare  with 
manfoul  :  But,  fearing  alio  lefl  this  knot  mould 
break,  he  bethinks  himfelf  of  another,  to  wit. 

3.  To  endeavour  to  pofTefs  all  hearts  in  the  town 
of  manfoul  that  Shaddai  was  railing  of  an  army  to 
come  to  overrhrow  and    utterly   to   deftroy    this 

n  of  manfoul  (and  this  he  did,  to  forefta!"  any 
tidings  that  might  come  to  their  ears  of  their  de- 
liverance) for,  thought  he,  if  Iflrfl  bruit  this,  the 
tidings  that  might  come  after  will  all  be  fwallowed 
up  of  this  ;  for  what  elfe  will  manfoul  fay,  when 
they  fhallhear  that  they  mufl  be  delivered,  but  that 
the  true  meaning  is,  Shaddai  intends  to  deitroy, 
The  ffoce  them.  ?  Wherefore  he  fummons  tire 
of  hearing  whole  Town  into  the  market-place, 
nd  there,  with  deceitful  tongue,  thus 
fhiuringx     he  addreffes  himfelf  unto  them  ; 


The    HOLY    WAR.  43 

'<  Gentlemen,  and  my  very  good  Friends,  you 
are  all,  as  you  know,  my  legal  fubje&s,  and  men 
of  rhe  famous  town  of  manfoul  ;  you  know  how, 
from  the  nrft  day  that  I  have  been  with  you  until 
now  I  have  behaved  myfelf  among  you,  and  what 
liberty  and  great  privileges  you  have  enjoyed  un- 
.  der  my  government,  I  hope  to  your  honor  and 
mine,  and  alio  toyonr  content  and  delight.  Now, 
my  famous  manfoul,  a  noiie  of  trouble  there  is 
abroad,  of  trouble  to  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  forry 
I  am,  therefore,  for  your  fakes,  for  I  received  but 
now  by  ihe  poll  from  my  Lord  Lucifer  (and  he 
ufeth  to  have  good  intelligence)  that  your  old 
King  Shaddai  is  railing  of  an  army  to  come  againft 
you,  to  deftroy  you  root  and  branch.     And  this, 

0  manfoul,  is  now  the  caufe  that  at  this  time  I 
have  called  you  together,  namely,  toadvife  what, 
in  this  juncture,  is  bcft  to  be  done  :  for  my  part  I 
am  but  one,  and  can  with  eafe  ihift  for  myfelf,  did 

1  lift  to  feek  my  own  eafe,  and  to  leave  my  man- 
foul in  all  danger  ;  but  my  heart  is  fo  firmly  uni- 
ted to  you,  and  fo  willing  am  I  to  leave  you, 
that  I  am  willing  to  ftand  and  fall  with  you,  to 
the  utmoft  hazard  that  ihall  befal  me.  What  fay 
you,  O  my  manfoul  ?  Will  you  now  dcfert  your 
old  friend,  or  do  you  think  of  ftanding  by  me  ?" 
Then,  as  one  man,  with  one  mouth,  they  cried  out 
together,  "Let  him  die  the   death   that   will  not." 

Then  (aid  Diabolus  again,,  "It  is  in  vain'  for  us 
to  hope  for  quarter  ;  for  this  King  knows  not 
how  to  fliew  it.  True,  perhaps,  he,  at  his  tirft  f]r> 
Very  decei-  ting  down  before  us,  will  talk  of  and 
vav/e„L*n-  pretend  to  mercy,  that  thereby j  with 
guvge.  the  more  eafe,    and   lefs    trouble,  he 

may  3  gain  make  himfelf  the  mafter  of  manfoul  : 
whatfoever,  theief.  re,  he  (hall  fay, believe  not  one 
fy  liable  :or  tittle  of  it  3  for  all  fuch  language  is  but 


44  The.-H  OLY    W  A  R. 

to  overcome  us,  and  to  make  us,  while  we  wallow 
in  our  blood,  the  trophies  of  his  me  reliefs  victory. 
My  mind  is  therefore,  that  we  refolve  to  the  I  a  it 
mm  to  refill  him,  and  not  to  believe  him  upon  any 
terms  :  for,  in  at  that  door  will  come  our  danger. 
But  mall  we  be  flattered  out  of  our  lives  ?  *  hope 
you  know  more  of  the  rudiments  of  politics  than 
to  fuffer  yourfelves  lb  pitifully  to  be  ferved. 

"But  fuppofe  he  mould,  if  he  get  us  to  yield, 
fave  fome  of  our  lives,  or  the  lives  of  feme  of  them 
that  are  underlings  in  manfoul,  what  help  will 
that  be  to  you  that  are  the  chief  of  the  town, 
efpecially  of  you  whom  I  have  let  up,  and  whole 
greatnefs  has  been  procured  by  you  through  your 
faithful  flicking  to  me  ?  And,  fuppofe  again,  that 
he  Ihould  give  quarter  to  every  one  of  you,  be  lure 
f  .  j  he  will  bring  you  into  that  bondage 
-;'Wl°  '  "  under  which  you  were  captivated  be- 
*?  ^  *  fore,  or  a  worfe  ;  and  then,  what  good 
will  your  lives  do  you  ?  Shall  you  with  him  live 
in  pleafure  as  you  do  now  :  No,  no  ;  you  mull  be 
•bound  by  laws  that  will  pinch  you,  and  be  made 
to  do  that  which  at  prefent  is  hateful  to  you.  I 
am  for  you,  if  ye  are  for  me  ;  and  it  is  better  to 
He  is  cf raid  die  valiantly  than  to  live  like  pitiful 
of l'j fing  of  flaves  ;  but  I  fay,  the  life  of  a  Have 
Manfjul.  will  be  counted  a  life  too  good  for 
manfoul  now.  Blood,  blood,  nothing  but  blood, 
is  in  every  blaftof  Sbaddai's  trumpet  againil  poor 
.iioul  now.  Pray  be  concerned,  I  hear  he  is 
coming  up  ;  and  Hand  to  your  arms,  that  now, 
while  you  Have  any  lei'fure,  I  may  learn  you  fome 
H:  put?  feats  of  war.  Armour  for  you  I  have, 
tkrem  upon  and  by  me  it  is  5  yea,  and  it.  is,  fiifii- 
ar;;iincr        cicnt  for   manfoul    from    top   to    t 

.  nor   can   you    be    hurt  by   wl 
force  can  do  if  you  ihail    keep   it    well    g 


The    HOLY    WAR.  4y 

fattened  about  you.  Come,  therefore,  to  my  cattle 
and  welcome,  and  harnefsyourfclves  for  the  war: 
there  is  helmet,  breaftplate,  fword  and  ftiield,  and 
what  not,  that  will  make  you  fight  like  men/* 

"I.  My  helmet,  othervvife  called  an  headpiece, 
tt'it  is  hcpe  of  doing  well  at  lafl,  what 

/j  e  me  ,  \[yj€S  foever  you  live.  This  is  that 
Ueu.  xxix.19.  whichthcyhad>whofaid,  that  they 
mould  have  peace,  though  they  walked  in  the 
wickednefs  of  their  heart,  to  add  drunkennefs  to 
third.  A  piece  of  approved  armour  this  is  ;  and 
whoever  has  it,  and  can  hold  it,  fo  long  no  arrow, 
dart,  fword,  or  fpcar,  can  hurt  him  :  This,  there- 
fore, keep  on,  and  thou  wilt  keep  off  many  a 
blow,  my  manfoul. 

"2.  My  breaftplate  is  a  breaftplate  of  iron  ;  I 
His  breaft-  had  it  forged  in  mine  own  country, 
plate,  Rev.  and  all  my  foldiers  are  armed  there- 
ix.  9.  with.     In  plain  language,  it  is  an  hard 

heart,  antieart  as  hard  as  iron,  and  as  much  pait 
feeling  as  a  {tone  ;  the  which,  if  you  get  and- 
keep,  neither  mercy  fh.a!l  win  you,  nor  judgment 
fright  yon.  This  therefore  is  a  piece  of  armour 
molt  neceffary  for  all  to  put  on  that  hate  Shaddai, 
and  that  would  tight  againlt  him  under  my  banner.. 

"3.  My  fword  is  a  tongue  that  is  fee  on  lire  of 
His  f-vord,  feell,  and  that  can  bend  itfelf  to  fpeak: 
Pfal.  Ivii.  4.  evil  of  Shaddai,  his  Son,  his  ways  and 
&  Ixiv.  3.  people:  life  this  ;  it  has  been  tried  a 
yam.  iii.  thoufand  times  twice  told  ;  whoever 
hath  it, keeps  it,  and  makes  that  ufe  of  it  as  I  would 
have  him,  can  never  be  conquered  by  mine  enemy. 

"4.  My  fliield  is  unbelief,  or  called  into  quef-. 
His  jhield,  tion  the  truth  of  the  word,  or  all  the 
yob  xv.  26.  flyings  that  fpeak  of  the  judgment 
Pf.  Ixxvi.  3.  that  Shaddai  his  appointed  for  wick- 
Mark  vl.  *\  ed  men  ;  ufe  this   fhield  :  many   at- 


46  .The    HOLT  WAR. 

tempts  he  has  .made  upon  ir,  and  fometimeS,  it  is 
true,  it  has  been  bruifed  ;  buc  they  that  have 
writ  of  the  wars  of  Emmanuel  againft  my  fer- 
yants  have  teilified,  that  he  conid  do  no  mighty 
work  there  becaufe  of  their  unbelief.  Now  to 
handle  this  weapon  of  mine  aright,  it  is,  not  to 
believe  things  becaufe  they  are  true,  of  what  fort 
or  by  whomsoever  affertcd  :  if  he  fpeaks  of  judg-" 
ment,  care  net  for  it  ;  if  he  fpeaks  of  mercy,  care 
no:  for  it  ;  if  he  promifes,  if  he  fwears  that  he 
would  do  to  manibul,  if  it  turns,  no  hurt  but 
good,  regard  not  what  is  laid,  queftion  the  truth 
of  all  ;  for  this  is  to  wield  the  fhield  of  unbelief 
aright,  and  as  my  fervants  ought  and  do  :  and 
lie  that  doth  otherwife  loves  me  not,  nor  do  I 
count  him  but  an  enemy  to  me. 

'^.'Another  part  or  piece/'  laid  Diabolus    "  of 

mine  excellent  armour  is,  a  dumb    and  prayerlefs 

fpirit,  a  fpirit  thatfeorns  to  cry  for  mercy  :  vvhere- 

:e  be  you,  my  manibul,  fure  that  you  make  ufe 

:     of  this.      What!   cry  forquarter  !  nev.erdo  that  if 

•     you  would  be  mine.     I  know  you  are  ltout  men,- 

J  am  lure  that  I  have  clad  you  with  that  which 

armour  of  proof  ;  wherefore,  to  crytoShaddai 

mercy,  let  that  be    far  from   you  :   bdides    all 

Uiis,  I  have  .a  maul,  firebrands,  arrows,  anddeath, 

ati  good  hand-weapons,  and  fuch  as  will    do   exc- 


Afterhehad  thus  furniihed  his  men  with  armour- 
.and. arms,  he  addrefled  himfelf  to   them    in    fuch 
Hi'  &cks  'all    like  words  as  thefe  :   "Remember, "% 
ch  quoth  he,  "  that  I  am  your  rightful 
king,  and  that  you  have    taken   an 
oath,,  and  entered  into  covenant,  to  be  true  to  me 
my  caufe:  I  fay,  remember  this,  and  lhewyour- 
es  it  out  and  valiant  men  of  manfoul.     Ren: 
fcer  alio  the  kindnefs  thaci  frave  always  ,jhov. 


The    HOLY    W  A  R,  47. 

to  you,  and  that,  without  your  petition,  I  have 
granted  to  you  external  things :  wherefore  the  pri- 
vileges, grants,  immunities,  profits,  and  honours, 
wherewith  I  have  endowed  you,  do  call  tor,  ac 
your  hands,  returns  of  loyalty,  my  lion-like  men 
of  manfoul  ;  and  when  fo  lit  a  time  to  mow  it  as 
when  another  fhall  feek  to  take  my  dominion  over 
you  into  their  own  hands ;  One  word  more,  and  I 
have  done  :  Can  we  but  itand,  and  overcome  this 
one  fhock  or  brunt,  I  doubt  not  but  in  little  time 
all  the  world  will  be  ours  :  and  when  that  day 
comes,  my  true  hearts,  I  will  make  you  kings, 
princes,  and  captains  3  and  what  brave  days  fliall 
we  have  then:" 

Diabolus,  having  thus  armed  and  forewarnedhis 
fervants  and  vafTals  in  manfoul  againft  their  good 
and  lawful  King  Shaddai,  in  the  next  place  he 
doubleth  his  guards  at  the  gates  of  the  Town, and 
he  takes  himfelf  to  the  caille,which  was  his  ifrong 
hold  :  his  vafTals  alfo,  to  ihew  their  wills,  and  fup- 
They  of  poled  (but  ignoble)  gallantry,  exercife. 
Manfoul    themfelves  in  their  arms  every  day,  and 

JIjotv  their  teach  one  another  feats  of  war  ;.  they 
loyalty  to  alfo  defied  their  enemies,  and  fang  .up 
the  Giant,  thepraifes  of  their  tyrant  3  they  threat- 

•  ened  alfo  what  men  they  would  be,  if  ever  things 
ihould  rife  fo  high  as  a  war  between  Shaddai  and 

•their  king. 

Now,  all  this  time  the  good  King,  the  King' 
Shaddai  f  re-  Shaddai,  was  preparing  to  fend  as 

y$areth  an       my  to  recover  the    town   of  msnfoui 

' ar-niy  fur  the  again  from  under  the  tyranny  • 

yvery  of   pretended   king    Diabolus:  :  but.  lie 
marfjuL         thought  good  at  rlril  not  to  fend  them 
by  the  hand  and  conduct  of  "brave"  Pnimanuel.   his 
Son,  but  under  the  hand  of  fome  of  his  fervai 
to  fee  iiric  by  theru  the  temper  of  n^nfoul-,  and 


von 


48  The   HOLY  WAR. 

The  words  whether  by  them  they   would  be  won 

of  God.       to  the  obedience   of  their  King.     The 

army  confiiied  of  above  forty    thoufand,  all  true 

men  ;  for  they  came  from  the  King's  own  court, 

and  were  thofe  of  his  own  chufing. 

They  came  up  to  manfoul  under  the  conduct  of 

four  flout  generals,  each  man  being   a  captain  of 

•<_,,  .    ,  ten  thoufand  men  ;  and  thefe  are  their 

7 he  captains  ,   .    .    r7  _,,  c 

r  names  and  their  ligns.     The  name  of 

the  firlt  was  Boanerges,  the  name  of 

the  fecond  was  Captain  Conviction,    the  name  of 

the  third  was  Captain  Judgment,    and  the    name 

of  the  fourth  was  CaptainExecution  :  thefe  were 

the  captains  that  Shaddai  fent  to  regain  manfoul. 

Thefe  four  captains  (as  was  faid)  the  King 
thought  fit,  in  the  firft  place,  to  fend  to  manfoul, 
to  make  an  attempt  upon  it  :  for  indeed, generally, 
iti  all  his  wars  he  did  ufe  to  fend  thefe  four  cap- 
tains in  the  van,  for  they  were  very  itout  and 
rough-hewn  men,  men  that  were  fit  to  break  the 
ice,  and  to  make  their  way  by  dint  of  fword  ; 
and  their  men  were  like  themfelves. 

To  each  of  thefe  captains  the  King  gave  a  ban- 
pp  *  ,         ner,  that  it  might  be  difplayed,  becaufe 
"4*  of  the  goodnefs   of  his   caufe,  and  be- 
canfe  of  the  right  he  had  to  manfoul. 

Firft,  To  Captain   Boanerges,   for   he  was  the 

Mark  m.  17  chief  to  him,T  fay,   were   given  ten 

thoufand  men  ;    his   enfign  was  Mr. 

Thunder  ;  he   bare    the   black   Colours,    and   his 

fcutcheon  was  the  three  burning  Thunder-bolts. 

The  fecond  captain  was  Captain  Conviction,  to 
him  were  given  ten  thoufand  men  ;  his  enfign's 
name  was  Mr.  Sorrow  ;    he  bare  the  pale  colours, 

Deut.  xxx'ri  -  anc*  his  fcinneon  vvas  ^:e  Brj0}   °f 
the  Law  wide  open,  from  whence 

ifTued  a  flame  of  fire. 


The    HOLY   WAR.  49 

The  third  captain  was  Captain  Judgment  ;  to 
him  were  given  ten  thoufand  men  ;  his  enfign's 
name  was  Mr.  Terror  ;  he*  bare  the  red  Colours, 
and  his  fcutcheon  was  a  burning  fiery  Furnace, 

The  fourth  captain  was  Captain  Execution  ;  to 
Mat.  xiii.  him  were  given  ten  thoufand  men  ;  his 
40,41.  enfign  was  one  Mr.  Juftice  ;  he  alfo 
Mtf/.iii.io  bare  the  red  Colours,  and  his  fcuthcon 
was  a  fruitlefs  Tree,  with  an  axe  lying  at  the  root 
thereof. 

Thofe  four  captains,  as  I  faid,  had  every  one  of 
them  under  his  command  ten  thoufand  men,  all  of 
good  fidelity  to  the  King,  and  flout  at  their  mili- 
tary actions. 

Well,  the  captains  and  their  forces,  their  meu 
and  under  officers,  being  had  upon  a  day  by  Shad- 
dai  into  the  field,  and  there  called  all  over  by  their 
lames,  were  then  and  there  put  into  fuch  harnefs 
as  became  their  degree,  and  that  fervice  that  now, 
they  were  going  about  for  their  King: 

Now,  when  the  King  had  muftered  his  foi 
(for  it  is  he  that  muftereth  the  hofl  to  the  battle) 
he  gave  unto  the  captains   their   feveral  ccriimi.fi- • 
fions,  with  charge  and  commandment,   in-  the  au- 
dience of  all    the  foldiers,    that    they  fhould.  oa! 
heed  faithfully  and  courageouflv  to  do  and  execi 
the  fame.     Their  commiflions  were,    for  the  fub- 
llance  of  tnem,  the  fame  in  form,    though,   as  to 
name,  title,  place,   and   degree,    of  the  captain?; 
there  might  be  fome  but  very  final!  variation.  And 
here  let  me  give  you  an  account  of  the  matter/and 
fum  contained  in  the  commiffion. 


50'  The    HOLY    W'A  R. 

ACommijJion  from  the  great  Shaddai,  King  of  Man- 
foul,  to  his  trufty  and  noble  Captain,  the  Captain 
Boanerges ;,  for  making  war  upon  the  town  of 
Manfoul. 


Whet 

mi 


Kir  com-  "S~\  THOU  Boanerges,    one  of  my 

ijfiotu  v>/  ftouc   and  thundering   captains 

Mat.  x.i  i.  over  one  ten  thoufand  of  my  valiant 
Luke  x.  y.  an(j  faithful  fervants,  go  thou  in  my 
name  wirh  this  thy  force,  to  the  mifcrable  town 
of  manfoul  ;  and,  when  thou  corned  thither,  offer 
them,  firft,  conditions  of  peace  ;  and  command 
them,  that  cafting  off  the  yoke  and  tyranny  of 
the  wicked  Diabolus,  they  return  to  me  their 
rightful  Prince  and  Lord  ;  command  them  alfo, 
that  they  cleanfe  themfelves  from  all  that  is  his 
in  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  and  to  look  to  thyfelf, 
thut  thou  haft  good  fatisfaction  touching  the  truth 
of  the  obedience.  Thus,  when  thou  hall:  com- 
manded them  (if  they  in  truth  fubmit  thereto) 
then  do  thou  to  the. uttermoft  of  thy  power,  what 
in  thee  lies,  to  fet  up  for  me  a  garrifon  in  the  fa- 
mous town  of  manfoul :  nor  do  thou  hurt  the'leaft 
native  that  moveth  or  breatherh  therein,  if  they 
will  fubinit  themfelves  to  me,  but  treat  thoufuch 

_,,  *  as  if  they  were  thy  friend  or  brother;  for 
*  :  V  ail  fuch  I  love,  and  they  fhall  be  dear 
n'  7-  '  unto  me  :  and  tell  them,  that  I  will  take 
9t  lo>  *i-a  t-me  t0  come  unto  them  :  and  to  let 
them  know  that  I  am  merciful. 

•"  But  if  they  fhall,  notwithftanding  thy  fum- 
rnons,  and  the  producing  of  thy  authority,  relift, 
it and  out  againll  thee,  and  rebel  ;  then  do  I  com- 
rhand  thee  to  make  ufe  of  all  thy  cunning,  power, 
might,  and  force,  to  bring  theru  under  by  itrength 
of  hand.    Farewell." 


The    HOLY    WAR.  51 

Thus  you  fee  the  ium  of  their  commiifions ;  for, 
as  I  faid  before,  for  the  fubftance  of  them,  they 
were  the  fame  the  reii  of  the  noble  captains  had. 

Wherefore,  each  commander,  having  received 
_,,  his  authority  at   the  hand  of  his  King, 

iey  pre-  ^  ^  ^  being  appointed,  and  the  place 

1    of  their  rendezvous  prefixed,  the  com- 

mar        manders  appeared  in  fuel)    gallantry    as, 

their  caufe  and  calling  required.     So,  after  a  new 

entertainment  from  Shaddai,  with  flying    colours 

they  fet  forward,  to   march   towards  the    famous 

town  of  manfoul.     Caprain  Boanerges  hd  the  van, 

Captain  Conviction  and  Captain    Judgment  made 

up     the    main     body,    and    Captain   Execution 

brought  up  the  rear.     They  then,  having  a  great 

way  to  go  (for  the  town   of  manfoul  was  far  off 

P  j  r  ..    from  the  court  of  Shaddai)  they  march- 

¥36*'  l  '  ed  through    the  regions  and   countries 

*'    *•"      of  many  people,  not  hurting  or  abufing 

any,  but  bleiling  wherever  they  came  :  they  alio 

lived  upon  the  King's  coft  all  the  way  they  wenr. 

Having  travelled  thus  for  many  days, at  lait  they 
came  within  fight  of  manfoul  ;  the  which  when 
they  faw,the  captains  could  for  their  hearts  do  no 
lefs  than  for  a  while  bewail  the  condition  of  the 
town  -r  for  they  quickly  faw  how  that  it  wasprof- 
trate  to  the  will  of  Diabolus,  and  to  his  ways- 
and  defigns. 

Well,  to  be  fhort,  the  captains  came  up  before 
the  town,  march,  up  to  Ear-gate,  fit  down  there, 
(for  that  was  the  place  of  hearing.)  So  when  they 
had  pitched  their  tents,  and  intrenched  themfelves 
they  addrefled  themfelves  to  make  their  affault. 

Now,  the  townsfolk  at  firft,  beholding  fo  gallant- 

Tbe  world  a  company,  fo  bravely  accoutred,  and 

are  convin-  fo  excellently  difciplined,   having   on 

cedbytke    their  glittering  armour,   and  difplay- 

E  2 


52  The  HOLY  WAR. 

-well-order-  ing  of  their  flying  colours,  could  not 
ed  life  of  but  come  out  of  their  houfes  and  gaze. 
the  godly.  But  the  cunning  fox  Diabolus,  fear- 
ing that  the  people,  after  this  fight,  fhould  on  a 
fudden  fummons,  open  the  gates  to  the  captains, 
camedown  with  all  hafte  from  the  Cattle,  and 
made  them  retire  into  the  body  of  the  Town; 
who,  when  he  had  them  there,  made  this  lying 
and  deceivable  fpeech  unto  them. 

"  Gentlemen,"  quoth  he,  "altho'  you  are  my 
Diabolus  truly  and  well  beloved  friends,  yet  I 
alienates  cannot  but  (a  little)  chide  you  for  your 
their  mi W/late  uncircumfpect  action,  in  going  out 
from  them,  to  gaze  on  that  great  and  mighty  force 
that  but  yefterday  fat  down  before  (and  have  now 
intrenched  themfeles,  in  order  to  the  maintaining 
of  a  liege  again!!;  the  famous  town  of  manfoul. 
Do  you  know  who  they  are,  whence  they  come, 
and  what  is  their  purpofe  in  fitting  down  before 
7"V  /'  f  ff  tne  town  of  manfoul  ?  They  are  they 
W  sjaje  Q£  vvj10m  j_havc  told  you  long  ago  that 

they  would  come  to  deftroy  thisTown 

and  againft  whom  I  have  been  at  the  coll:  to  arm 

•J  with   cap-a-pee  for  your  body,  befides   great 

fortifications  for  your  mind  ;  wherefore  then  did 

you  not  rather,  even  at   the   firft  appearance   of 

*  them,  cry  out,  fire  the  beacons,  and  give  the  town 
an  alarm  concerning  them,  that  we  might  all  have 
been  in  a  poflure  of  defence,  and  have  been  ready 
to  h  ive  received  them  with  the  highelt  acts  of  dc- 
Satan  great-  fiance  ?    then   had  you  mewed  your- 

•  ly  afraid  of  felves  men  to  my  liking  ;  whereas  by 
Goa's  mini-  what  you  have  done,  you  have  made 
fiers,  that  me  half-afraid,  I  fay,  balf-afraid,  that, 
they  will  ft  when  they  and  we  fhall  come  to  pufli 

'Manful  a-  a  pike,  I  mall  find  you  want  courage 
gain]}  him.    to  Hand  ic  out  any  longer.  Wherefore 


The    HOLY    WAR,  53 

have  I  commanded  a  watch,  and  that  yon  mould 
double  your  guards  at  the  gates  ?  Wherefore  have 
I  endeavoured  to  make  you  as  hard  as  iron,  and 
your  hearts  as  a  piece  of  the  nether  miiftune  ?  Was 
it,  think  you,  that  you  might  mew  yourlelves  wo- 
men, and  that  you  might  go  out  like  a  company 
He  jlirs  of  innocents  to  gaze  on  your  mortal 
them  up  to  foes  ?  Fy,  fy  !  put  yourlelves  into  a 
bid  defiance  pofture  of  defence,  beat  up  the  drum, 
to  the  mini-  gather  together  in  warlike  manner, 
Jlers  of  the  that  our  foes  may  know  that,  before 
word.  they  fhall  conquer  this   Corporation, 

there  are  valiant  men  in  the  town  of  manfoul. 

"I  will  leave  off  now  to  chide,  and  will  not  fur- 
ther rebuke  you  :  but  I  charge  you,  that  hencefor- 
ward you  let  me  fee  no  more  fuch  actions  ;  let  noc 
henceforward  a  man  of  you,  without  order  flrfl 
obtained  from  me,  fo  much  as  ihevv  his  head  over 
the  wall  of  the  town  of  manfoul.  You  have  now 
heard  me  ;  do  as  I  have  commanded,  and  you  ihall 
caufe  me  that  I  dwell  fecurely  with  you,  and  that 
as  I  take  care  for  myfelf,  fo  for  your  fafety  and 
honor  ulfo.     Farewell/' 

Now  were  the  townfmen  ftrangely  altered :  they 
IVhen  fin-  were  as  men  flrkken  with  a  pannic 
ners  tyear-  fear  ;  they  ran  to  and  fro  through  the 
ken  to  Sa-  flreets  of  the  town  of  manfoul,  crying 
tan,  they  out,  "Help,  help  ;  the  men  that  turn 
are  ft  in  the  world  upfide  down  are  come  hither 
a  rage  a-  alfo."  Nor  could  any  of  them  be  quiet 
gainflgod-  after*  but  ftill,  as  men  bereft  of  wit, 
iinefs.  they  cried  out,  The  deitroyers  of  oivr 
peice  and  people  are  come.  This  went  down  with 
Di.ibolus  :  Ay  !  quoth  he  to  himfelf,  "  this,.  I 
J  ke  well  ;  now  it  is  as  I  would  have  it  ;  now  you. 
i  y  y  our  obedience  to  your  prince;  hold  you  but 
liviV;  .;:ui  tben  lee  them  take  tbcTown  if  they  can** 
£  3 


54  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Well,  before  the  King's  forces  had  fat  before 
manfoul  three  days,  Captain  Boanerges  com- 
manded his  trumpeter  to  go  down  to  Eargate, 
The  Kings  and  there,  in  the  name  of  the  great 
trumpet  Shaddai,  to  fummoii  manfoul  to  give 
founded  at  audience  to  the  mefTage  that  he,  in  his 
Eargate,  mailer's  name,  was  to  them  command- 
ed to  deliver.  So  the  trumpeter,  whofe  name  was 
T&ke-heed-what-you-hear,  went  up,  as  he  was 
commanded,  to  Ear-gate,  and  there  founded  his 
trumpet  for  a  hearing  :  but  there  was  none  that 

They  will  *PPeared'  that  gave  anfwer,  or  regar- 
J  \  ded  ;  for  fo  had   Diabolus   command- 

Tot  hear 

ed.     So  the  trumpeter  returned  to  his 

captain,  and  told  him  what  he  had  done,  and  alfo 
how  he  had  fped  :  whereat  the  captain  was  griev- 
ed, but  bid  the  trumpeter  go  to  his  tent. 

Again  Captain  Boanerges  fendeth  his  trumpeter 

/£>        i  to  Ear-gate,  to  found  as  before  for  an 

■  r  hearing:  but   they   again   kept    clofe, 

&*epulfcd    came   not   our'  nor  would  thev  §lve 
*  J  ■  '   him  an  anfwer  ;  fo  obfervant  were  they 

of  the  command  of  Diabolus  their  King. 

Then  the  captains  and  other  field  officers  called 
'■*  ..a  council  of  war,  to  confider  what   fur- 

\fC^iliC  tner  was  to  be  done  for  the  gaining  of 
r  ar*  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  and,  after  fome 
tlote  and  thorow  debate  upon  the  contents  of  their 
commiilions,  they  concluded  yet  to  give  to  the 
Town,  by  the  hand  of  the  fore-named  trumpeter, 
another  fummons  to  her  \  but  if  that  mall  be  re- 
.  fufed,  faid  they,  and  that  the  town  fhall  fland  it 
,  ,  :  out  flill,  then  they  determined,  and 
inline  \\\.  b]d  the   tnimpeter   len  thcni   f0t   that 

2 3'  they  would  endeavour,  by  what  means 

they  could,  to  compel  them  by  force  to  the  obe- 
dience of  their  King. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  s$ 

So  Captain  Boanerges  commanded  his  trumpe- 
ter to  go  up  to  Ear-gate  again,  and  in  the  name 
A  third  of  the  great  King  Shaddai  to  give  it 
fummons.  a  veiy  loud  fummons  to  come  down 
without  delay  to  Ear-gate,  there  to  give  audi- 
ence to  the  King's  molt  noble  captains.  So  the 
trumpeter  went,,  and  did  all  he  was  commanded  :  ! 

//■•  1  "••■  ne  went  UP  t0  Ear-gate,  and  founded 
J  i.  vin.  I.  j^-s  trumpetj  and  gave  a  third  fu  mm  oris 

to  manfoul ;  he  faid  moreover,  that,  if  this  they 
fhould  flill  refufe  to  do,  the  captains  of  his  Prince 
would,  with  might,  come  down  upon  them,  and 
endeavour  to  reduce  them  to  their  obedience  by 
force. 

Then  flood  up  my  Lord  Willbcwill,  who  was 
The  Lord  the  governor  of  the  Town  (this  Will- 
JVillbeiuiWs  be  will  was  that  apollate  of  whom 
>.  Jfeech  to  the  mention  was  made  before)  and  the 
trumpeter.  keeper  of  the  gates  of  manfoul.  He 
therefore  with  big  and  ruffling  words,  demand 
of  the  trumpeter  who  he  was  r  whence  he  came'?-- 
and  what  was  the  caufe  of  his  making  fo  hideous  a' 
noife  at  the  gate,  and  fpeaking  fuch  infufferable' 
words  againlt  the  town  of  manfoul  ? 

The  trumpeter  anfwered,  "  I  am  fervant  to 
yi  the  moil  noble  captain,  Captain    Boa— 

nerges,   general   of  the   forces  of  the 
*  y  great  King  Shaddai,  againll  Whom  both 

thyfelf  with  the  whole  town  of  manfoul  have  re- 
belled, and  lift  up  the  heel  ;  and  my  matter  t he- 
captain  hath  a  fpecial  mefiage  to  this  Town,    and 
to  thee,  as  a  member  thereof  •  the  which,  if  you  of  - 
man  fouT  Hi  all  peaceably  hear,  fo  j  and  if  not,  muft    s 
take  what  follows." 

Then  faid  the  Lord  WiMbwill,    "I  will  carry- 
tVUlbewilLxhy  words  to  my  Lord,  and  will  know;., 
what  he -will  fay," 


S6  The    HOLY    WW, 

But   the  trumpeter  foon  replied,  faying,  "Our 
_,,  meffage  is  not  to  the  Giant   Diabolus, 

e  but  to  the  miferable  town  of  manfoul  : 

*e  er>  nor  fliall  we  at  all  regard  what  anfwer 

by  him  is  made,  nor  yet  by  any  for  him.  We  are 
fent  to  this  Town  to  recover  it  from  under  his 
cruel  tyranny,  and  to  perfuade  it  to  fubmit,  as  in 
former  times  it  did,  to  the  moil  excellent  King 
Shaddai." 

WillbewilL  Then  faid  the  Lord  Willbewill,  "I 
will  do  your  errand  to  the  Town." 
The  trum-  The  trumpeter  then  replied,  "Sir, 
feter.  do  not  deceive  us,  left  in  fo  doing  you 
deceive  yourfelves  much  more."  He  added,  more- 
over, "for  we  are  refolved,  if  in  peaceable  manner 
you  do  not  fubmit  yourfelves,  then  to  make  a  war 
upon  you,  and  bring  you  under  by  force.  And 
of  the  truth  of  what  I  fay,  this  fhall  be  a  fign  unto 
you,  you  fhall  fee  the  black  flag,  with  its  hot  burn- 
ing thunder-bolts,  fet  upon  the  mount  to-morrow, 
as  a  token  of  defiance  againft  your  prince,  and  of 
our  resolutions  to  reduce  you  to  our  Lord  and 
rightful  Kin^." 

So  the  faid  Lord  Willbewill  returned  from  offthe 
j£iV    ■  wall,  and   the  trumpeter  came  into  the 

f  camp.     When  the  trumpeter  was  come 

,    imo  the  camp,  the  captains  and  officers 
turns  tothe     r    ,         .    ,    r    rr.         01     jj  • 

ofthemighry  King   Shaddai  came  to- 

?'  gether  to  know  if  he  had  obtained  a 
hearing,  and  what  was  the  effect  of  his  errand.  So 
the  trumpeter  told,  faying,"  When  I  had  founded 
my  trumpet,  and  had  called  aloud  to  the  Town 
.  for  a  hearing  ;  my  Lord  Willbewill,  the  gover- 
nor of  the  Town,  and  he  that  hath  charge  of 
the  gates,  came  up  when  he  heard  me  found  ; 
and,  looking. over  the  wall,  he  afked  me,  what 
I  was  ?  whence  I  came  ?  and  what  was  the   caule 


The    HOLY    WAR.  57 

of  my  making  this  noifc  ?  So  I  told  him  my 
errand,  and  by  vvhofc  authority  I  brought  it. 
Then,  faid  he,  I  will  tell  ir  to  the  Governor  and 
to  manfoul.  And  then  I  returned  to  my  Lords." 
Carnal  fouls  Then  faid  the  brave  Boanerges, "  Let 
make  a  us  yet   for   a   while  lye  ftill   in    our 

wrong  in-  trenches,  and  fee  what  thefe  rebels 
terpreta-  will  do."  Now,  when  the  time  drew 
tion  of  the  nigh  that  audience  by  manfoul  mult 
defign  of  a  be  given  to  the  brave  Boanerges  and 
go  ft  el  mi-  his  companions,  it  was  commanded 
fiijlry.  that  all  the  men  of  war  throughout  the 

camp  of  Shaddai  mould  as  one  man  Hand  to  their 
arms,  and  make  themfelves  ready,  if  the  town  of 
manfoul  (hall  hear,  to  receive  it  forthwith  to  mercy ; 
but,  if  not,  to  force  a  fubjection.  So,  the  day  being 
come,  the  trumpeters  founded,  and  that  through- 
out the  whole  camp,  that  the  men  of  war  might 
be  in  readinefs  for  that  which  then  mould  be  ihe 
work  of  the  day.  But' when  they  that  were  in  the 
town  of  manfoul  heard  the  found  of  the  trumpets 
throughout  the  camp  of  Shaddai,  and  thinking  no 
other  but  that  it  mull  be  in  order  toltorming  the 
Corporation,  they  at  firft  were  put  to  great  coniler- 
nation  of  fpirit,  but,  after  they  a  little  were  fettled 
Z<>  h  '"  again>  they  alio  made  what  prep'ara- 
'  tions  they  could  for  a  war;  if  they 
did  ftorm  ;  elfe  to  fecu re  themfelves. 

Well,  when  the  utmoft  time  was  ccme,  Boaner- 
ges was  refolvedtoheartheiranfwer:  wherefore  lie 
fent  out  his  trumpeter  again  to  fummon  manfoul 
to  a  hearing  of  the  meflage  that  they  had  brought 
from  Shaddai.  So  he  went  and  founded,  and  the 
townfmen  came  up,  but  made  Ear-gate  as  fnre 
Boanerges  as  they  could.  Now,  when  they  were 
refufes  to  come  up  to  the  top  of  the  wall,  Cap- 
make  in*    tain  Boanerges  defired  to  fee  the  Lord 


58  The    HOLY   WAR, 

credulity  a  Mayor  ;  bar  my  Lord  Incredulity  was 
judge  of  then  Lord  Miyor,  for  he  came  in  the 
what  be  bad  room  of  my  Lord  Lullings.  So  In- 
to deliver  to  credulity  came  up  and  ihewed  himfelf 
th?  famous  over  the  wall  ;  but  when  the  Captain 
town  of  Boanerges  had  fee  his  eyes  upon  him, 
manful.  he  cried  out  aloud,  "  This  is  not  he  ; 
where  is  my  Lord  Underdanding,  the  ancient 
Lord  Mayor  of  the  town  of  manfoul  ?  for  to  him 
I  would  deliver  my  mefTage." 

Then  faid  the  Giant  (for  Diaboluswasalfo come 
down)  to  the  captain  "Mr.  Captain,  you  have  by 
your  boldnefs,  given  to  manfoul  at  lead  four  fum- 
monfes  to  fubjeel  herfelf  to  your  King  ;  by  whofe 
authority  I  know  not, nor  will  I  difpute  that  now. 
I  afk,  therefore,  what  is  the  reafon  ot  all  this  ado, 
or  what  would  you  be  at  if  you  knew  yourfelves." 

Then  Captain  Boanerges,  (whofe  was  tbe  black 
Boanerges  Co  lours  yznd  whofe  feu  tch  eon' was  three 
obtaineth  a  burning  Thunder-bolts)  taking  no  notice 
hearing.  of  the  Giant, or  of  his  fpeech,  thus  ad- 
dreffed  himfelf  to  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  "Be  it 

His  fpeech    tnown  unt0  J°^  °  unhaPPY  and  re- 
J"  bellious  manfoul,  that    the  moil  gra- 

cious King,  the  great  King  Shaddai,  my  Mafter, 
laath  fent  me  unto  you  with  commiffion  (and  fo  he 
fhewed  to  the  Town  his  broad  feal)  to  reduce  you 
to  his  obedience.  And  he  hath  commanded  me, 
in  cafe  you  yield  upon  my  fummon?,-to  carry  it  to 
you  as  if  you  were  my  friends  or  brethren  ;  but  he 
alfo  hath  bid,  that  if,  after  fummons  to  fubmit, 
•you  ftill  {land  out  and  rebel,  we  fliould  endeavour 
to  take  you  by  force." 

The  fpeech  Then  flood  forth  Captain  Conviction, 
of  Captain  and  faid,  (his  was  the  pale  Colours,  and 
Conviction,  for  a  fcutcheon  he  had  the  Book  of  the 
Rom. iii.  iotLazvwide  ofen,.&c.)tllitir, O manfoul ! 


The   HOLY   WAR.  59 

* — 19,  23.  Thou,  O  manfoul,  wait  once  famous 
Chap.  xvi.  for  innocency,  but  now  thou  art  de- 
17, 18,/y.l.  generated  into  lies  and  deceit  :  thou 
21,  22.  hail:  heard  what  my  brother  the  Cap- 
tain Boanerges  hathfaid,and  it  is  your  wifdom, and 
will  be  your  happinefs,  to  (loop  to,  and  accept  of, 
conditions  of  peace  and  mercy  when  offered  ; 
efpecially  when  offered  by  one  againit  whom  thou 
halt  rebelled,  and  one  who  is  of  power  to  te^r 
thee  in  pieces,  for  fo  is  Shaddai  our  King  ;  nor, 
when  he  is  angry  can  any  thing  ftand  before  him. 
If  you  fay,  you  have  not  finned,  or  acled  rebel- 
lion againit  our  King,  the  whole  of  your  doings, 
fince  the  day  that  you  caft  off  his  fervice  (and  there 
was  the  beginning  of  your  fin)  will  fufficiently 
teftifyagainftyou.  What  elfe  means  your  hearken- 
ing to  the  tyrant,  and  your  receiving  him  for  your 
king  ?  What  means  elfe  your  rejecting  the  laws  of 
Shaddai,  and  your  obeying  of  Diabolus  ?  Yea, 
what  means  thus  your  taking  up  of  arms  againit, 
and  the  framing  of  your  gates  upon  us,  the  faith- 
ful fervants  of  your  King  ?  Be  ruled,  then,  and  ac- 
cept of  my  brother's  invitation,and  overftand  not 

Luke  xii  the  timc  of  mercy>  ^ut  agree  witk  thine? 
«  *  adverfary  quickly.  Ah,  manfoul  !  fuf- 
^  '  ™*  fer  not  thyfelf  to  be  kept  from  mercy, 
and  to  be  run  into  athoufand  miferies,  oy  the  flat- 
tering wiles  of  Diabolus.  Perhaps  that  Piece  of 
Deceit  may  attempt  to  make  you  believe  that  we 
feek  our  own  profit  in  this  our  fervice  ;  but  know 
it  is  obedience  to  our  King,  and  love  to  yeur  hap- 
pinefs, that  is  the  caufe  of  this  undertaking"  of 
ours. 

"  Again,  I  fay  to  thee,  O  manfoul,  confider  if  it 

2  Cor.  v    18  bc  n0t  amazing  Srace   that   Shaddai 
'  'fhould  fo  humble  himfelf  as  he  doth. 

Now  he  by  us  reafons  with  you  in  a 


60  The    HOLY    WAR. 

way  of  entreaty  and  fweet   perfuafion,    that  yoi 
would  fubject  yourielves  to  him.  Has  he  that  nee( 
of  you  that  we  are  fure  you  have    of  him  ?    No, 
n  )  :  but  he  is  merciful,  and  will  not  that  manfoul 
fhould  die,  but  turn  to  him  and  live." 

Then  flood  forth  Captain  Judgment,  (whofe  was 
Captain  the  red  Colours,  and   for    a   icurcheon 

Judgment,  he  had  the  burning  fiery  Furnace),  and 
bisfpesch  he  faid,  "  O  ye  the  inhabitants  of  the 
to  manfoul.  town  of  manfoul,  that  have  lived  fo 
long  in  rebellion  and  acls  of  treafon  againil  the 
King  Shaddai,  know,  that  we  come  not  to-day  to 
this  place,  in  this  manner,  with  our  melTage  of  our 
own  minds,  or  to  revenge  our  own  quarrel  ;  it  is 
the  King  my  Mailer  that  hath  fent  us  to  reduce 
you  to  your  obedience  to  him,  the  which  if  you 
refufe  in  a  peaceable  way  to  yield,  we  have  com- 
mi/Don  to  compel  you  thereto.  And  never  think 
of  yourfelves,  nor  yet  fufTer  the  tyrant  Diabolus 
to  perfuade  you  to  think,  that  our  King  by  his 
power  is  not  able  to  bring  you  down,  and  to  lay 
-you  under  his  feet  ;  for  he  is  the  former  of  all 
things,  and  il  if  he  touches  the  mountains  they 
$*-  fmoke."  Nor  will  the  gate  of  the  King's  cle- 
■jur  j  -  r  mency  Hand  always  open  ;  for  the 
•  n'.1"'  "  d-^y  tnat  ma^  burn  like  an  oven  is 
?  \V'  ?*  before  him,  yea,  it  hafieth  greatly, 
j$  Jlumbreth  not. 

"  O  manfoul,  is  it  little  in  thine  eyes  that    our 

King  doth  offe*  thee  mercy,  andthat  after  fo  many 

.provocations?  Yea,  heflill  holdeth  out  his  golden 

fceptreto  thee,  and  will  not  yet  fnflvr  his  gate to  be 

fhut  againflthee;  wilt  thou  provoke  him  to  doit? 

~  ,  .     If  fo,  confider  what  I  fay,   "To.rhee 

yob  xxxvi.  it .  !  ,  y  ,f 

J        R  "it  is  opened  no  more  for   c\ 

*4>  iy-  v  thou  fayed  thou  fhalt  not  k 

"yet  judgment  is  beforehim  j  therefore  trull  .'thou 


The    HOLY   WAR.  61 

14  in  him  :  yea,  becaufe  there  is  wrath,  beware  left 
"  he  take  thee  away  with  his  ftroke  ;  then  a  great 
"  ranfom  cannot  deliver  thee.  Will  he  efteem 
"  thy  riches  I  No,  not  gold,  nor  all  the  forces  of 
Pfal.  ix.  7.  "  ftrength.  He  hath  prepared  his 
//tf.lxvi.iy."  throne  for  judgment  :  for  he  will 
"  come  with  fire,  and  with  his  chariots  like  a 
11  whirlwind,  to  render  his  anger  with  fury,  and 
u  his  rebukes  with  flames  of  fire."  Therefore,  O 
manfoul,  take  heed  left,  after  thou  haft  fulfilled 
the  judgment  of  the  wicked,  that  judgment  fhould 
take  hold  of  thee." 

Now  while  Captain  Judgment  was  making  of 
this  oration  to  the  town  of  manfoul, it  was  obferved 
by  fome  that  Diabolus  trembled  :  but  he  proceedr 
ed  in  his  parable,  and  faid,  H  O  thou  woeful  town 
of  manfoul,  wilt  thou  not  yet  fet  open  thy  gate 
to  receive  us,  the  deputies  of  thy  King,  and  thofe 
that  would  rejoice  to  fee  thee  live  ?  "  Can  thine 
P  ,  ..  "  heart  endure,  or  can  thy  hands  be 
&zek.  xxu.    M  ftrong,  in  the  day  that  he  fhall;  deal 

*4*  iC  in  judgment  with  thee  V  Ifay,  canft 

thou  endure  to  be  forced  to  drink,  as  one  would. 
drink  fweet  wine,  the  fea  of  wrath  that  ou,r  King 
has  prepared  for  Diabolus  and  his  angels  ?  Con- 
fider  betimes,  confider." 

Then  flood  forth  the  fourth  captain,  the  noble- 
The  fpeech  Captain  Execution, and  faid,  u  O  town 
of  Captain  of  manfoul,  once  famous,  but  now  like. 
Execution,  the  fruitlefs  bough  ;  once  the  delight 
of  the  high  Ones,  but  now  a  den  for  Diabolus  • 
hearken  alfo  to  me,  and  to  the  words  that  1  fhall 
fpeak  to  thee  in  the  name  of  the  great  Shaddai, 
"  Behold,  the  axe  is  laid  to  the  root  of  the  trees  ; 
\7  '"  "  every  tree  therefore  that  bringetk 
1  ■ '  *     lt7>  u  not  fort|1  g00C|  fruit  is  hewn  down, 

I0'  "and  call  into  the  fire," 

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62  The  HOLYWAR. 

"  Thou,  O  town  of  manfoul,  halt  hitherto  been 
this  fruitlefs  tree  ;  thou  beared  nought  but  thorns 
and  briers.  Thy  evil  fruit  fore-befpeaks  thee  not 
Dent,  xxxii.  to  be  a  good  tree  ;  "  Thy  grapes  are 
32.  "  grapes  of  gall,  thy  clutters  are  bit- 

*'  ter."  Thou  hail  rebelled  againft  thy  King  ;  and, 
lo  !  we,  the  power  and  force  of  Shaddai,are  the  axe 
that  is  laid  to  thy  roots.  What  fayeft  thou  ?  wilt 
thou  turn  f  I  fay  again, Tell  me,before  the  flrftblow 
is  given, wilt  thou  turn  ?  Our  axe  muft  fir  ft  be  laid 
to  thy  root  before  it  be  laid  at  thy  roofc  ;  it  muft 
firft  be  laid  to  thy  root  in  a  way  of  threatening, 
before  it  is  laid  at  thy  root  by  way  of  execution  ; 
and  between  thefe  two  is  required  thy  repentance, 
and  this  is  all  the  time  that  thou  haft.  What  wilt 
thou  do  ?  Wilt  thou  turn  I  or  (hall  I  fmite  ?  If  I 
fetch  my  blow,  manfoul,  down  you  go  :  For  I 
have  commiffion  to  lay  my  axe  at,  as  well  as  to  thy 
roots  ;  nor  will  any  thing  butyielding  to  our  King 
prevent  doing  of  execution.  What  art  thou  fit 
for,  O  manfouljif  mercy  preventeth  not,but  to  be 
hewn  down,  and  caft  into  the  fire  and  burned  £ 

O  manfoul,  Patience  and  Forbearance  do  not  act 
for  ever.  A  year,  ortwo,or  three,  they  may  ^  but 
if  thou  provoke  by  a  three  years'  rebellion,  and  thou 
haft  already  done  more  than  this,  then  what  fol- 
Luke,  xiii.  lows,  but  Cnt  it  down  f  nay,  after  that 
6,  9.  thou  Jh  a  it  cut  it  down.      And  doft  thou 

think  that  thefe  are  but  threatenings,or  that  cur 
King  has  not  power  to  execute  his  words  ?  Oman- 
foul,  thou  wik  flnrd  that  in  the  words  of  our  King, 
when  they  are  by  Tinners  made  little  or  light  of,there 
is  not  only  threatening, but  burning  coals  of  fire. 

Thou  haft  been  a  cumber-ground  long  already, 
^nd  wilt  thou  contim.  fo  ft il  1  ?  Thy  fin  has  brought 
this  army  to  thy  walls,  and  mail  it  bring  in  judg- 
ment to  do  execution  into  thy  town  ?   Thou  haft 


The    HOLY   WAR.  63 

heard  what  thecaptains  have  faid,.  but  as  yet  thou 
fhutteil  thy  gates  ;  fpeakout, manfoul,  wilt  thou  do 
foftill  ?  or  wilt  thou  accept  of  conditionsof  peace  ?" 

Thefe  brave  fpeeches  of  thefe  four  noble  cap- 
Manfoul  de-  tains  the  town  of  manfoul  refufed  to 
fires  time  to  hear  ;  yet  a  found  thereof  did  beat 
make  an-  againif.  Ear-gate,  though  the  force 
fwer.  Upon  thereof  could  not  break  it  open.  In 
-what  condi-  fine,the  Town  defired  a  time  to  pre- 
tions  the  pare  their  anfwer  to  thefe  demands. 
Captains  The  Captains  then  told  them, that  if 
iv  oid d  give  they  would  throw  out  tothemonelli- 
ikem  time,  paufe  that  was  in  the  Town,  that  they 
might  reward  him  according  to  his  works,then  they 
would  give  them  time  toconfider ;  but  if  they  would 
not  cafr.  him  to  them  over  the  wall  of  manfoul, 
then  they  wouldgivethemnone  :  "For,"faidthey? 
"  vve  know  that,  fo  long  as  Ill-paufe  draws  breath 
in  manfoul  all  good  confideration-  will  be  confound- 
ed, and  nothing  but  mifchief  will  come  thereon  " 

Then  Diabolus,  who  was  there  prefent,  bein^ 
Diabohis  loath  to  lofe  his  Ill-paufe  becaufe  he  was 
interrupts  his  orator  (and  yet  be  fure  he  had,could 
them,  and  the  captains  have  laid  their  fingers  on 
fet  sin  ere- him.)  was  refolved  at  this  inftant  to  give.. 
dulity  to  them  anfwer  by  himfelf  ;  but  then, 
a?:fiuer  changing  his  mind,  he  commanded  the, 
them,  then  Lord  Mayor,  the  Lord  Increduli- 
ty, to  do  it  3  faying,  "My  Lord,  do  you  give 
thefe  runagates  an  anfwer,  and  fpeak  out,  that 
manfoul  may  hear  and  underftand  you." 

So  Incredulity,  at  Diabolus's  command,   began, 
H's  ft      h    anc*        *  "Gentlemen,  you  have  here, 
™  as  we  do  behold,  to  the  difturbance  of 

our  Prince,and  the  moleftation   of  the   town   of 
manfoul,    camped   againft  it  :  but   from   whence 
you  come,  we  will  not  know  \  and  what  you  are^ 
T  2 


64  The    HOLY    WAR. 

we  will  not  believe.  Indeed,  you  tell  us,  in  your 
terrible  fpeech,  that  you  have  this  authority  from 
Shaddai  ;  but  by  what  right  he  commands  you  to 
do  it,  of  that  we  fhall  yet  be  ignorant. 

"  You  have  alfo,  by  the  authority  aforefaid,fum- 
moned  this  Town  to  defert  her  Lord,  and, for  pro- 
tection, to  yield  up  herfelf  to  the  great  Shaddai 
your  King  ;  flatteringly  telling  her,  that,  if  fhc 
will  do  it,  he  will  pafs  by,  and  not  charge  her 
with,  her  pail  offences. 

"Further,  you  have  alfo,  to  the  terror  of  the 
town  of  manfoul,  threatened,  with  great  and  fore 
dift  ructions,  to  punifh  thisCorporation,  if  fhe  con- 
sents not  to'do  as  your  wills  would  have  her. 

"Now,  Captains,  from  whencefoever  you  came, 
The  true  and  though  your  defigns  be  never  fo 
pi'flure  of  right  ;  yet  know  ye,  that  neither  my 
'  Unbelief.  Lord  Diabolus,  nor  I  his  fervant  Incre- 
dulity, nor  yet  our  brave  manfoul,  do  regard  ei- 
ther y^our  perfons,  meffage,  or  the  King  that  you 
fay  hath  fent  you  :  his  power,  his  greatnefs,  his 
vengeance,  we  fear  not,  nor  will  we  yield  at  all 
.to  your  fummons. 

"  As-for  the.  war  that  you  threaten  to  make  up- 
on us,  we  mull  therein  defend  ourfelves  as  well 
as  we  can  :  and  know  ye,  that  we  are  not  with- 
out wherewithal  to  bid  defiance  to  you.  And  in 
fhort,  for  I  will  not  be  tedious,  I  tell  you  that  we 
lake  you  tobefome  vagabond  runagate  crew,  that, 
having  fhaken  ofFallobediencetoyour  King,  have 
gotten  together  in  a  tumultuous  manner,  and  are 
ranging  from  place  to  place,  to  fee  if,  through 
the  flatteries  you  are  fkilled  to  make  on  the  one 
fide,  and  threats  wherewith  }rou  think  to  fright 
on  the  other,  to  make  fome  filly  town,  city,  or 
country,  to  defert  their  place,  and  leave  it  to 
you  :  but  mdnfoul  is  none  of  them. 


The   HOLY    WAR,  6>~ 

u  To  conclude,  we  dread  you  not,  we  fear  you 
not,  nor  will  we  obey  your  fummons  :  our  gates 
we  keep  (hut  upon  you,  our  place  we  will  keep 
you  out  of;  nor  will  we  long  thus  fuffer  you  to 
,  ,  .  fit  down  before  us.  Our  people  mufl 
'  live  in  quiet,  your  appearance  doth 
difturb  them  :  wherefore  arife  with  bag  and  big- 
pi  a     gdge»  an^  Dc  g°ne,or  we  will  let  fly  from 

J  '    the  walls  againit  you." 

This  oration,  made  by  old  Incredulity,  was  fc- 
conded  by  defperate  Willbewill,  in  v\oids  to  this 
The  fpeech  effect  ;  "Gentlemen,  we  have  heard 
of  the  Lord  your  demands,  and  the  noife  of  your 
/^/V/£*w/7/.  threats,  and  have  heard  the  found  of 
your  fummons  ;  but  we  fear  not  your  force,  we 
regard  not  your  threats,  but  will  Hill  abide  as  you; 
found  us.  And  we  command  you, that  in  three  days' 
time  you  ceafe  to  appear  inthefe  parts,  or  you  ihall 
know  what  it  is  once  to  dare  offer  to  rouze  the 
lion  Diabolus,when  ailcep  in  his  town  of  manfoul." 

The  Recorder,  whofe  name  was  Forgetgood,he 
The  fpeech  alfo  added  as  folio  weth  :  "  Gentle- 
of  Forget-  men,  my  Lords,  as  you  fee,  have,  witit 
good  the  mild  and  gentle  words,  anfwered  your 
Recorder,  rough  and  angry  fpeeches  ;  they  h^vc, 
moreover,  in  my  hearing,  given  you  leave  quietly 
to  depart  as  you  came :  wherefore,  take  their  kincN 
nefs  and  be  gone.  We  might  have  come  out  with 
force  upon  you,  and  have  caufed  yon  to  feel  rhe 
dint  of  our  fwords  :  but  as  we  love  eafe  and  quiet 
ourfelves,  fo  we  love  not  to  hurt  or  mo! eft  others/' 

Then  did  the  town  of  man  foul  ihout  fV.  r  joy,as  if 
The  Town  by  Diabolus  and  his  crew  fome  great: 
refohed  to  advantage  had  been  gotten  of  the  cap- 
zuithjland  tains.  They  alfo  rang  the  bt  lis, made 
the  c-:?f -tains,  merry,  and  danced  upon  rhe  walls. 

Diabolus  alfo  returned  to  the  calllc,  and  the 

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66  The   HOLY   WAR. 

Lord  Mayor  and  Recorder  to  their  place  :  but  the 
Lord  Willbewill  took  fpecial  care  that  the  gates 
mould  be  fecured  with  double guards,double  bolts, 
and  double  locks  and  bars.  And  that  Ear-gate 
(efpeciallyjmight  thebetter  be  looked  to, for  that 
was  the  gate  in  at  which  the  King's  forces  fought 
moil  to  enter,  the  Lord  Willbewill  made  one  old 
The  band  Mr.  Prejudice  (an  angry  and  ill-con- 
of  Deaf  men  ditioned  fellow)  captain  of  the  ward 
Jet  to  keep  at  the  gate,  and  put  under  his  power 
Ear-gate,  fixty  men,  called  Deaf  men  ;  men  ad- 
vantageous for  that  fervice,forafmuchasthey  mat- 
tered no  wordsofthe  captains,norof  their  foldiers. 
]  Now,  when  the  captains  faw  the  anfwer  of  the 
The  cap-  great  ones ;  and  that  they  could  not 
tains  refolve  get  an  hearing  from  the  old  natives 
to  give  them  of  theTown  ;  and  that  manfoul  was 
"battle.  refolved  to  give  the  King's  army  bat- 

tle ;  they  prepared  themfelves  to  receive  them,and 
to  try  it  out  by  the  power  of  the  arm.  And,  firft, 
they. made  th^ir  force  more  formidable  againft 
Ear-gate  ;  for  they  knew  that,  unlefs  they  could 
penetrate  that,  no  good  could  be  done  upon  the 
Town.  This  done,  they  put  the  reit  of  their  men 
in  their  places.  After  which  they  gave  out  the 
The  battle  word,  which  was,  "Ye  muff,  be  born  a- 
begun.  gain."  Then  they  founded  the  trumpet. 
Then  they  in  theTown  made  them  anfwer,  with 
fhout  againit  fhoutjCharge  againlf.  charge  ;  and  fo 
the  battle  begun.  Now,  they  in  the  Town  had 
«7  planted  upon  the  tower  overEar-^ate 

./    f,    x  .   two  great  guns,  the  one  called  Hhrh- 
ptanted  upon     .    f>       •,      ,  ,       7T      i  ti 

p         .  r     mind,  and  -the  other  Heady.      Unto 

Lar-oate.         .    c  '  .  lX  J3  , 

cS  thefe  two  guns  they   trulted    much  ; 

they  wcrccaft  in  the  catll    by  Diabolus's  founder, 

whofe  name  was  Mr.   Puif-np  ;   and  mifchievous 

pieces  they  were,  But  fo  vigilant  and    watchful 


The    HOLY    WAR,  67 

(when  the  captains  faw  them)  were  they,  that 
though  fometimes  their  fhot  would  go  by  their 
cars  with  a  whizz,  yet  they  did  them  no  frarm. 
By  thefe  two  guns  the  townsfolk  made  no  quef- 
tion  but  greatly  to  anuoy  the  camp  of  Shaddai,and 
well  enough  to  fecure  the  gate  ;  but  they  had  not 
much  caufe  to  boaft  of  what  execution  they  did, 
as  by  what  follows  will  be  gathered. 

The  famous  manfoul  had  alfo  fome  other  fmall 
pieces  in  it,  of  the  which  they  made  ufe  againft 
the  camp  of  Shaddai. 

They  from  the  camp  alfo  did  asfl:outly,and  with 

as  much  of  that  as  may  (in  truth)  be  called  valour, 

cj-j    r  let  fly  as  fait    at    the  Town,  and   at 

I  be  lenience  ^  for    .  faw    h  j  f 

and  power  of  ..      6       i\   u      1  r? 

th    MS   d  y  cou^   Drea*   open  Lar-gate,  it 

would  be  but  in  vain  to  batter  the 
wall.  Now,  the  King's  captains  had  brought  with 
them  feyeral  flings,  and  two  or  three  battering- 
rams  ;  with  their  flings,  therefore,  they  battered 
the  houfes  andpeople  of  the  Town,and  with  their 
rams  they  fought  to  break  Ear-gate  open. 

Thecampand  the  Town  had  feveral  fkirmifhes 
and  brifk encounters, while  the  captains  with  their 
engines  made  many  brave  attempts  to  break  open 

cri    cr  or  beat  down  the  tower  that  was  over 

J  he  Town     ^  ,         ,_    r  .  ,  , 

/?///?     ;  Ear-gate,and  at  the  laid  gate  to  m;ika 

Dt  their  entrance  :    but  manfoul  flood  it 

our  fo  lullily,  through  the  ra»ge  of 
Diabolus,  the  valour  of  the  Lord  WillbewiJl,  and 
the  conduct  of  old  Incredulity  the  Mayor,and  Mr. 
Forgetgood  the  Recorder,that  the  charge  and  ex- 
pense of  that  fummer's  war  (on  the  King's  iide). 
The  cap-  feemed  to  be  almofl  quite  loll, and  the 
tains  return  advantage  to  return  to  manfoul  :  but> 
to  their  win-  when  the  captains  faw  how  it  was, 
ter-qaarters,  they  made  a  fair  retreat,   and  in- 


68  The    HOLY    WAR. 

An  account  trenched  themfelves   in  their  winter-  I 
of  this  -war  quarters.  Now,  in  this  war,  you  mull 
with  refer-  needs  think  there    was   much  lofs  on  j 
ence  to  the   both  (ides,  of  which,  be  pleafcd  to  ac- 
lofs  on  both  cept  of  this  brief  account  following. 
fides.  The  King's  captains,  when  they  march- 

ed from  the  court  to  come  up  again  ft  man  foul 
to  war,  as  they  came  croffing  over  the  country, 
Three  new  they  happened  to  light  upon  three 
foidiers.  young  fellows  that  had  a-nrind  to  go 
for  foidiers  ;  proper  men  they  were,  and  men  of 
courage  and  fkill,  to  appearance  :  their  names 
were,  Mr.  Tradition,  Mr.  Human-wifdom,  and  Mr. 
Man's-invention.  So  they  came  up  to  the' cap- 
rains,  and  proffered  their  fervice  to  Shaddai.  The 
captains  then  told  them  of  their  defign,  and  bid 
them  not  to  be  rafh  in  their  offers:  but  the  young 
men  told  them,  they  had  confidered  the  thing  be- 
fore, and,  hearing  they  were  upon  their  march 
for  fuch  a  defign,  came  hither  on  purpofe  to 
meet  them,  that  they  might  be  lifted  under  their 
Excellencies.  Then  Captain  Boanerges,for  that 
rhey  were  men  of  courage,  lifted  them  into  his 
company  ;  and  fo  away  they  went  to  the  war. 
•  Now,  when  the  war  was  begun,  in  one  of  the 
brifkeft  fkirmifhes,  fo  it  was,  that  a  company  of 
the  Lord  Willbewill's  men  fallied  out  at  the  fally- 
port  or  poftern  of  the  Town,  and  fell  in  upon  the 
rear  of  Captain  Boanerges'  rnen,  where  thefe  three 
fellows  happened  to  be  :  fo  they  took  them  pri- 
They  are  foners,  and  away  they  carried  them  inro 
taken  fri-  the  Town  ;  where  they  had*not  lain 
foners.  lon£  in  durance,  but  it  began  to  be 
noifed  about  the  ftreets  of  the  town  what  three 
norable  prisoners  the  Lnrd  Willbewill's-  men  had 
taken,  and  brought  in  prisoners  out  of  the  camp 
ofShiddai.  At  length  tidings  thereof  were  car- 
ried to  Diabolus  to  the  caftle,   to  wir,  what  my 


The    HOLY  WAR.  60 

Lord  Willbewill's  men  had  done,  and  whom  they 
had  taken  prifoners. 

Then  Diabolus  called  for  Willbewill,  to  know 
the  certainty  of  this  matter.  So  he  afked  him, 
and  he  told  him.  Then  did  the  Giant  fend  for 
They  are  the  prifoners,  who,  when  they  were 
brought  be-  come,  demanded  of  them  who  they 
fore  Diabo-  were  ?  whence  they  came  ?  and  what 
Ius,and  are  they  did  in  the  camp  of  Shaddai  ?^and 
content  to  they  told  him.  Then  he  fent  them  to- 
fight  under  ward  again.  Not  many  days  after  he 
his  banner,  fent  for  them  to  him  again,  and  then 
afked  them  if  they  would  be  willing  to  ferve  him 
againft  their  former  captains?  They  then  told 
him,  that  they  did  not  fo  much  live  by  religion 
as  by  the  fates  of  fortune  ;  and  thar,fince  his  Lord- 
fhip  was  willing  to  entertain  them,  they  fhould 
be   willing   to   ferve  him.     Now,    while    things 

A  >th'  were  ^1US  *n  nant*>  there  was  one  Cap- 
'  '  «=>'  tain  Anything,  a  great  doer  in  the 
town  of  manfoul  ;  and  to  this  Captain  Anything 
did  Diabolus  fend  thefe  men,  with  a  note  tinder 
his  hand  to  receive  them  into  his  company  ;  the 
contents  of  which  letter  were  thus  : 

"  Anything,   my  darling,  the   three  men  that 

He  there-    are  the  bearers   of  this  letter  have  a 

fore  fends   defire   to   ferve   me  in  the  war   ;    nor 

ytkemto       know  I  better   to  whofe  conduct    t<s£ 

^Captain       commit  them   than  to    thine  :  receive 

Anything    them,  therefore,  in  my  name,  -and 'as. 

with  a  let-  need  /hall    require  make   ufe  of  them 

ter.  againil  Shaddai  and  his  men.  Farewell/' 

Anything     So  they  came,  and  he   received  them  $ 

receives     and  he  made  of  two  of  them  Serjeants, 

them  into  but  he  nude   Mr.  ManVinvention  his 

hisfervice.  Enfign-bearer.      But    thus   much    for 

this,  and  now  to  return  to  the  camp. 


7o  The     HOLY    WAR. 

They  of  the  camp  did  alfo  fome  execution  upon 
the  Town  ;  for  they  did  beat  down  the  roof  of  the 
The  roof  of  old  Lord  Mayor's  houfe,  and  fo  laid 
old  Incredu-  him  more  open  than  he  was  before 
iitfs  houfe  They  had  almoft  (with  a  fling)  (lain 
beat  down,,  my  Lord  Wilibevvill  outright  ;  but 
he  made  a  fhift  to  recover  again.  But  they  made 
a  notable  daughter  among  the  vAldermen  ;  for 
with  only  one  (hot  they  cut  off  fix  of  them,  to  wit, 
Six  Alder-  Mr.  S  wearing,  Mr.  Who  ring,  Mr. Fury, 
men  flat n.  Mr.  Stand-to-lies,  Mr.  Drunkenefs, 
and  Mr.  Cheating. 

They  alio  difmounted  the  two  guns  that  flood 
The  two  upon  the  tower  over  Ear-gate,  and 
great  guns  laid  them  flat  in  the  dirt.  I  told  you 
dif mount-  before,  that  the  King's  noble  cap- 
ed.  tains  had   drawn  off  to   their    winter 

quarters,  and  had  there  intrenched  themfelves  and 
their  carriages,  fo,  as  with  the  bed  advantage  to 
their  King,  and  the  greateit  annoyance  to  the  ene- 
my, they  might  give  feafonable  and  warm  alarms 
to  the  town  of  manfoul.  And  this  defign  of  theirs 
did  fo  hit,  that  I  may  fay  they  did  almoft  what 
they  would  to  the  moleftation  of  the  Corporation. 

For  now  could  not  manfoul  fleep  fecurely  as  be- 
fore,nor  could  they  now  go  to  their  debaucheries 
with  that  quietnefs  as  in  times  pall  :  for  they  had 
Continued  from  the  camp  of  Shaddai  fuch  fr 
alarms  quent  warm  and  terrifying  alarms* 
'ghen  to  yea,  alarms  upon  alarms,  firft  at  one 
Manfoul.  gate,  and  then  at  another,  and  again 
at  all  the  gates  at  once,  that  they  were  broken  as 
The  effefts  to  former  peace.  Yea,  they  had  their 
of  convi'c-  alarms  fo  frequently,  and  that  when 
tions.  the  nights  were  at  longeft,  the   wea- 

ther,coIdeil,  and  fo,  confequently,  the  feafon  moil 
unfeafonable,  that  that  winter  was  to  the  town  of 


The   HOLY    WAR.  71 

manfoul  a  winter  by  itfelf.  Sometimes  the  trum- 
pets would  found,  and  fometimes  the  flings  would 
whirl  the  ftones  into  the  town.  Sometimes  ten 
thoufand  of  the  King's  foldiers  would  be  running 
round  the  walls  of  manfoul  at  midnight,  fhouting, 
and  lifting  up  the  voice  for  the  battle.  Sometimes 
again,  forae  of  them  in  the  town  would  be  wound- 
TV;^  Town  ed,  and  their  cry  and  lamentable  voice 
much  mo-  would  be  heard,  to  the  great  molefta- 
lefted.  tion  of  the  now-languilhing  town  of 
manfoul  :  yea,  fo  diltreffed  with  thofe  that  laid 
liege  againit  them  were  they,  that,  I  dare  fay, 
Diabolus  their  King  had  in  thefe  days  his  reft 
much  broken. 

In  thefe  days,  as  I  was  informed,  new  thoughts, 
rj  n     and  thoughts  that  began  to  run  coun- 

/    *-v    *.      ter  one  to  another,  began    to   pofTefs 
thoughts  in      ,        .,      r   .  fi*         c 

M  s r    ,       the  minds  or.  the  men  or  the  town  of 

"  "°  '  manfoul.  Some  would  fay,  There  is  no 
living  thus :  others  would  then  reply,This  will  be 
over  ihortly  :  then  would  a  third  itand  up  and  an- 
fwer,  Let  us  turn  to  the  King  Shaddai,  and  fo  put 
an  end  to  thefe  troubles:  and  a  fourth  would 
come  in  with  a  fear,  faying,  I  doubt  he  will  not 
receive  us.  The  old  gentleman  too,  the  Recorder, 
Conference  that  was  fo  before  Diabolus  took  man- 
fpeaks.  foul,  he  alfo  began  to  talk  aloud,  and 
his  words  were  now  to  the  town  of  manfoul  as  if 
fefaey  were  great  claps  of  thunder.  No  noife  now 
fo  terrible  to  manfoul  as  was  his,  with  the  noife 
of  the  foldiers,  and  fhoutings  of  the  captains. 

Alfo  things  began  to  grow  fcarce   in  manfoul  ; 

a r     -      •   now  the  things   that  her  foul    lulled 
Jl  famine  in  c  1  •      r         »         TT 

Manful  were  "ePartin£  fr°m  her.  Upon 

Ha  \\   2       a'*    ner  pJea*anc  things  there  was. a 

h         '  ';T    blaft,andaburninginfteadof<;  beauty. 
Wrinkles  now,  and  fonie  fhews  of  the  fhadow  of 


72  The   HOLY    WAR. 

death,  were  upon  the  inhabitants  of  manfoul.  And 
now,  O  how  glad  would  manfoul  have  been  to 
enjoyed  quietnefs  and  fatisfadtion  of  mind, though 
joined  with  the  meanett  condition  in  the  world  ! 

The  captains  alio,  in  the  depth  of  this  winter, 
They  are  did  fend,  by  the  mouth  of  Boanerge's, 
y*/////«<?;f  ^trumpeter  a  fummons  to  manful  to 
again  to  yield  up  herfelf  to  the  King,  the  great 
yield.  King  Shaddai.  They  fent  it  once,  and 
twice,  and  thrice,  not  knowing  but  that  ar  fine 
times  there  might  be  in  manfoul  feme  willingnefs 
tofurrender  up  themfelves  unto  them,  might  they 
but  have  the  colour  of  an  invitation  to  do  it  under. 
Yea,  fo  far  as  I  could  gather,  the  Town  had  been 
furrend^red  up  to  them  before  now,  had  it  not 
been  for  the  oppofition  of  old  Iucredulity,and  the 
ficklemfs  of  the  thoughts  ofmy  Lord  Willbewill. 
Diabolus  alfo  began  to  rave.  Wherefore  man- 
foul, as  to  yielding,  was  not  yet  all  of  one  mind  ; 
Manfoul  in  therefore  they  ftill  lay  diftreiTed  un- 
diftreft.       der  thefe  perplexing  fears. 

I  told  you  but  now,  that  they  of  the  King's  ar- 
my htd  this  winter  fent  three  times  to  manfoul, 
to  fubmit  herfelf. 

The  firft  time  the  trumprter  went,  he  went  with 
The  con-  words  of  peace,  tellingof  them,  aThat 
tents  of  the  the  captains,  the  noble  captains  of 
firfi  fum-  Shaddai,  did  pity  and  bewail  the  mife- 
mons.  ry  of  the  now-perifhing  town  of  niaiifi 

foul,  and  were  troubled  to  fee  them  fo  much  to 
ftand  in  the  way  of  their  own  deliverance.  He 
faid,-moreover,that  the  captains  bid  him  tell  them, 
that,  if  now  poor  manfoul  would  humble  herfelf 
and  rurn,her  former  rebellions  and  molt  notorious 
treafonslhould  by  their  merciful  King  be  forgiven 
them,  yea,  and  forgotten  too.  And,  having  bid 
them  bewarethat  they  ilood  not  in  their  own  way, 


The    HOLY  WAR.  73 

that  they  oppofed  not  themfelves,  nor  made  them- 
felves  their  own  lofers  ;  he  returned  again  into 
the  camp/'     _ 

Secondly,  The  fecond  time  the  trumpeter  went 
The  con-  he  did  treat  them  a  little  more  roughly; 
tents  of  the  for  after  found  of  trumpet,  he  told 
fecond  fum-  them,  "That  their  continuing  in  their 
mons.  rebellion  did  but  chaff  and   heat  the 

fpirit  of  the  captains,  and  that  they  were  refolved 
to  make  a  conqueft  of  man  foul,  or  to  lay  their 
bones  before  the  town-walls." 

Thirdly,  He  went  again  the  third  time,and  dealt 
The  con-  with  them  more  roughly  ;  telling  of 
tents  of  the  them,  "  That  now,  fince  they  had  been 
third  fum-  fo  horribly  profane,  he  did  not  know, 
mons.  not  certainly  know,   whether  the  cap- 

tains were  inclined  to  mercy  or  judgment ;  only, 
faid  he,  they  commanded  me  to  give  you  a  fum- 
mons  to  open  the  gates  unto  them."  So  he  re- 
turned, and  went  into  the  camp. 

Thefe  three  fummonfes,  and  efpecially  the  two 
Iafr,  did  fo  diftrefs  the  Town,  that  they  prefently 
called  a  confutation,  the  refult  of  which  was  th.il, 
That  my  Lord  Willbewill  mould  go  up  to  Ear-gate* 
and  there,  with  found  of  trumpet,  call  to  the  cap-  . 
The  Totvn  tains  of  the  camp  for  a  parley.  Well, 
founds  for  the  Lord  Willbewill  founded  upon  the 
a parley,  wall  ;  fo  the  captains  came  up  iu  their 
harnefs,  with  their  ten  thousands  at  their  feet. 
The  townfmen  then  told  the  captains,  that  they 
had  heard  and  confidered  their  fummonfes,.  and 
would  come  to  an  agreement  with  them,  and  with 
their  King  Shaddai,  upon  fuch  certain  terms,  ar- 
They  pro-  tides,  and  proportions,  as,  with  arid 
pound  con-  by  the  order  of  their  Prince,  they 
dhlmsof  to  them  were  appointed  to  pro- 
agreeMent.  pound  \  to  wir,  They  would  agree 
G 


*4  The    HOLY   WAR. 

upon  thefc  grounds  to  be  one  people  with  them  : 

1.  u  If  that  thofe  of  their  own  company,  as  the 

n    ,   rr       now  ^ord  Mayor,  and  their  Mr.  For- 
Propohtion  ,       •  i     ,    •    i  t       i  ,„.« 

Si    r  n    gctgood,  with  their  brave  Lord  Will- 

0n    3e  J1"  '    bewill,  might,  under  Shaddai,  be  ft  ill 

the  governors  of  the  Town,  Caftle,  and  gates  of 

manfoul." 

2.  "  Provided,  that  no  man,  that  now  ferveth 
Profofition  under  their  great  Giant  Diabolns,  be 
en  the  fe-  by  Shaddai  caft  out  of  houfe,  har- 
cond.  bour,  or  the  freedom  that  he  hath 
hitherto  enjoyed  in  the  famous  town  of  man- 
foul." 

3.  "  That  it  mail  be  granted  them,   that   they 

„        r  .        of  the  town  of  manfoul   fhall    enjoy 
Propo niton  .       c   ,  .   ,  ,      •  -i  J^~ 

r,  J  , .  j  certain  or  their  rights  and  privileges, 
on  the  third.  „        .     f    ,  ,  °       r  1      «& 

to  wir,  iuch   as  have   formerly   been 

•granted  them,  and  that  they  have  long  lived   in 

•the  enjoyment  of,  under  the  reign  of  their  king 

Diabolus,  that  now  is,  and  long  has  been,   their 

only  Lord  and  great  defender." 

4.  "  That  no  new  law,  officer,  or  executioner 
Propofition  of  law  or  office,  mall  have  any  power 
#n  the  over  them  without  their  own  choice 
fourth.         and  confent." 

■"  Thefe  be  our  propofitions,  or  conditions  of 
peace  ;  and  upon  thefe  terms,"  faid  they,  "  we 
"will  fubmit  to  your  King'" 

.But  when  the  captains  had  heard  this  weak  and 
feeble  offer  of  the  town  of  manfoul,  and  their  high 
and  bold  demands,  they  made  to  them  again,  by 
their  noble  captain,  the  Captain  Boanerges,  this 
-fpeech  following  : 

"  O  ye  inhabitants  of  the   town   of  manfoul, 

«  when  I  heard  your  trumpet  found  for 
Boanerges  ,  .  ,   *    ,  1     r      t  •■ 

, .        *  a  parley  with  us,  I  can  truly  fay  I  was 

pJMjwcn  glad  .  but  when  you  faid  ^  w<;re 


TtfE   HOLY    WAR.  75 

willing  to  fubmit  yourfelves  to  our  King  and  Lord, 

then  I  was  yet    more  glad  :    but  when,  by  your 

filly  provifoes,  and    fooliih    cavils,   you   laid   the 

ilumbling-block  of  your  iniquity  before  your  own 

faces,  then  was  my  gladnefs  turned  into   forrows, 

and  my  hopeful  beginnings   of  your   return   into 

Janguifhing,  fainting  fears. 

"I  count,  that  old  111-paufe,  the  ancient  enemy 

of  manfoul,  did  draw  up  thefe  propofals  that  now 

you  prefent  us  with,  as  terms  of  an   agreement  ; 

1  -?.     ..  but  they,  defer  ye  not  to  be  admitted 

i     nn.u.  19.  tQ  founcj  m  the  ear  0f  anv  man  that 

pretends  to  have  fervice  for  Shaddai.  We  do 
therefore  jointly,  and  that  with  the  highefl  dif- 
dain,  refuie  and  reject  fuch  things  as  the  greatefk 
of  iniquities. 

u  But,  O  manfoul,  if  you  will  give  yourfelves 
into-our  hands,  or  rather  into  the  hands  of  our 
King,  and  will  trull  him  to  make  fuch  terms  with 
and  for  you  as  mall  feern  good  in  his  eyes  (and  I 
dare  fay  they.mall  be  fuch  as  you  mall  find  to  be, 
moil  profitable  to  you)  then  we  will  receive  you, 
and  be  at  peace  with  you  :  but  if  }*ou  like  not  t$- 
truft  yourfelves  in  the  arms  of  Shaddai  our  King, 
then  things  are  but  where  they  were  before,  and 
we  know  alfo  what  we  have  to  do'." 

Then  cried  out  old  Incredulity;, the  Lord  Mayor, 
Old  lucre-  and  faid,  "  And  who,  being  out  of  the 
dulitfs  r^-Jiands  of  their  enemies,  as  ye  fee.  We 
fly,  are  now,  will   be  fo  foolifh   as   to  put 

the  flaff  out  of  their  own  hands  into  the.  hand  of 
they  know  not  who  ?  I,  for  my  part,  will  never 
yield  to  fa  unlimited  a  proportion.  Do  we  know 
the  manner  and  temper  of  their  iCing  ?  'T\s  faid 
byifgme,  that  he  will  be  angry  with  his  fubjecb, 
Unbelief  if  but  the  breadth  of  an  hair  they 
never  is  pro-  chance  to  ilep  out  of  the  way  :  and 
G  2 


76  TheHOLY  WAR. 

jitable  in  of  others,  that  he  requireth  of  them 
talk,  but  al-  much  more  than  they  can  perform. 
iv ays  [peaks  Wherefore  it  feems,  Omanfoul,  to  be 
mifibie-  thy  wifdom,  to  take  good  heed  what 
voufly.  thou  dofl  in  this  matter  ;    for  if  you 

once  yield,  you  give  up  yourfelves  to  another,  and 
Jo  you  are  no  more  your  own.  Wherefore,to  give 
up  yourfelves  to  an  unlimited  power  is  the  greateft. 
folly  in  the  world  ;  fornowyou  indeedmay  repent, 
but  can  never juftly  complain.  But  do  you  indeed 
know, when  you  are  his, which  of  you  he  will  kill, 
and  which  of  you  he  will  fave  alive  ?  or  whether 
he  will  not  cut  off  every  one  of  us,  and  fend  out 
of  his  own  country  another  new  people,  and 
eaufe  them  to  inhabit  this  Town  V 

This  fpeech  of  the  Lord  Mayor  undid  all,  and 
This [peech  threw  flat  to  the  ground  their  hopes 
undid  all :  of  an  accord  :  wherefore  the  captains 
returned  to  their  trenches,  to  their  tents,  and  to 
their  men,  as  they  were  ;  and  the  mayor  to  the 
Caftie  and  to  his  king. 

Now  Diabolus  had  waited  for  his  return, for  he 
foad  heard  that  they  had  been  at  their  points  :  ib, 
when  he  was  come  into  the  chamber  of  flate,  Dia- 
bolus faluted  him  with,  "Welcome,my  Lord  ;  how 
went  matters  betwixt  you  to  day  ?"  So  the  Lord 
Incredulity  (with  a  low  congee)  told  him  the 
\vhole  of  the  matter,  faying,  Thus  and  thus  faid 
the  captains  of  Shaddai,  and  thus  and  thus  faid  I. 
but  //  did  The  which,  when  it  was  told  to  Dia- 
plea[e  the  bolus,  he  was  very  glad  to  hear  it,  and 
devil,  faid  ;    "  My   Lord   Mayor,  my4 faith- 

ful Incredulity,  I  have  p-oved  thy  fidelity  above 
ten  times  already,  but  never  yet  found  thee  falfe. 
I  do  promife  thee,  if  we  rub  over  this  brunt,  to 
prefer  thee  to  a  place  of  honor,  a  place  far  better 
than  to  be  Lord  Mayor  of  manfoul  ;  I  will  make 


The    HOLY    WAR.  77 

thee  my  univerfal  deputy,  and  thou  (halt,  next  to 
me,  have  all  nations  under  thy  hand  :  yea,  and 
thou  malt  lay  bands  upon  them  that  they  may  not 
refill  thee  ;  nor  fhall  any  of  our  vaiTals  walk  more 
at  liberty,  but  thofe  that  fhall  be  content  to  walk 
in  thy  fetters." 

Now  came  the  Lord  Mayor  out  from  Diabolus, 
as  if  he  had  obtained  a  favour  indeed  ;  wherefore 
to  his  habitation  he  goes  in  great  (late,  and  thinks 
to  feed  himfelf  well  enough  with  hopes,  until  the 
.time  came  that  his  greatnefs  mould  be  enlarged. 

But  now,  though  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Diabolus 
did  thus  well  agree,  yet  this  repulfe  to  the  brave 
captains  put  manfoul  into  a  mutiny  :  for  while  old 
Incredulity  went  into  the  Caltle  to  congratulate 
his  lord  with  what  hadpafTed,the  old  Lord  Mayorr 
that  was  fo  before  Diabolus  came  to  the  Town, 
The  Under-  to  wit,  my  Lord  Underftandirig,  and 
ftanding  the  old  Recorder  Mr.  Confcience, get-* 
and  Confci-  ting  intelligence  of  what  had  palled  at- 
ence  begin  Ear-gate  (for  youmuft  know  that  they. 
to  receive  might  not  be  fuffered  to  be  at  that  do- 
conviction,  bate,  leil  they  mould  then  have  mini- 
and  they  fet  nied  for  the  captains  ;  but,  I  fay,  they 
the  foul  in  a  got  intelligence  what  had  paffed  there, 
hubbub.  and  were  much  concerned  therewith) 
wjjerefore  they, getting  fome  of  the  town  together, 
began  topoaefs  them  with  thcrcafonablenefs  of  the 
noble  captains'  demands,  and  with  the  bad  confe- 
quences  that  would  follow  upon  the  fpeech  of  old 
Incredulity,  the  Lord  Mayor  ;  to  wit,  How  little 
reverence  he  fhewed  therein, either  to  the  captains, 
or  to  their  King  ;  alio  how  he  implicitly  charged 
them  with  unfaithful:! efs  and  treachery  :  for  what 
lefs,  quoth  the)'', could  be  made  of  his  words, when 
he  faid  he  would  not  yield  to  their  proportions  ; 
and  2dded,  moreover,  a  fuppofuion  that  he  Aftvn;Td 


78  The    HOLY    WAR. 

deftroy  us,when, before,  he  had  fent  us  word  that 

he  would  mew  us  mercy  ?  The  multitude,  being 

m        ■  now  poffeiTed  with  the  conviction  of 

•    **    r  /    the  evil  that  oldlncredulity  had  done, 

in  Manlouu  ,  ,       ,    J  .  ' 

J         began  to  run  together  by  companies 

in  all  places,  and  in  every  corner  of  the  ftreets  of 
manlbul  ;  and,  firft,  they  began  to  mutter,  then  to 
talk  openly,and  after  that  they  ran  to  and  fro,and 
cried  as  they  ran,  "O  the  brave  captains  of  Shad- 
dai  !  Would  we  were  under  the  government  of 
the  captains,  and  of  Shaddai  their  King  !"  When 
the  Lord  Mayor  had  intelligence  that  manfoul  was 
in  an  uproar, down  he  comes  to  appeafe  the  people, 
and  thought  to  have  quafhed  their  heat  with  the 
bignefsand  the  fliew  of  his  countenance  :  but  when 
they  faw  him,  they  came  running  upon  him,  and 
had  doubt lefs  done  him  a  mifchief,  had  he  not  be- 
taken himfelf  to  his  houfe.  However,they  ftrongly 
aiTaulted  the  houfe  where  he  was, to  have  pulled  it 
down  about  his  ears;  but  the  palace  was  too  flrong, 
i"o  they  failed  of  that.  So  he, taking  fome  courage, 
addrefTed  himfelf,  out  at  a  window,  to  the  people 
in  this  manner  : 

incredulity  "  Gentlemen,  what  is  the  reaion 
Jeeks  to  quiet  that  there  is  here  fuch  an  uproar  to- 
the  people,      day  ?" 

Und.  Then  anfwered  my  Lord  Underflanding, 
U  *    n     j    "I*  *s  eve"  becaufe  that  thou  and  thy 

-V     "  mailer  have  carried  it  not  rightly, and 
in*  an  fitters  „       .,  ,  •  x- 

rf*     J  as   you    mould,    to    the    captains    of 

Shaddai  :  for,  in  three  things  you  are 

faulty  :  Firft,  In  that  you  would  not  let  Mr.  Con- 

fcience  and  myfelf  be  at  the  hearing  of  your   cFif- 

courfe.     Secondly,  In  that  you  propounded  fuch 

terms  of  peace  to  the  captains  that  by   no   means 

could  be  granted,  unlefs   they   hsd   intended  that 

their  Shaddai  mould  have  been  only  a  titular  prince, 


The    HOLY    WAR.  79 

and  that  manfoul  ihould  flil-1  have  had  power  by 
law  to  have  Jived  in  all  levvdnefs  and  vanity  be- 
fore him  ;  and  (o,  by  confequencc,Diabolus  fhould 
Hill  here  be  King  in  power,  and  the  other  only 
King  in  name.  Thirdly,  For  that  thou  didfl  thy- 
felf,  after  the  captains  had  mewed  us  upon  what 
conditions  they  would  have  received  us  to  mercy, 
even  undo  all  again  with  thy  unfavonry,  and  un- 
fcafonable,  and  ungodly  fpeech," 

Incred.  When  old  Incredulity  had  heard  this 
Sin  and  the  fpeech,  he  cried  out,  "Treafon,  trea- 
foul at  odds.  fan.  To  your  arms,  to  year  arms, 
O  ye  the  trurty  friends  of  Diabolus  in  manfoul." 

Und.  "Sir,  you  may  put  upon  my  words  what 
meaning  you  pleafe  ;  but  1  am  fure  that  the  cap- 
tains of  fuch  an  high  Lord  as  theirs  is  deferved  a 
better  treatment  at  your  hands." 

Incred.  Then  laid  old  Incredulity,  "This  is  but 
They  chide  little  better."  "But,  Sir,"  quoth  he, 
en  both  "what  I  fpake,  I  (pake  for  my  prince^ 
fides.  for  his  government,  and  the   quieting 

of  the  people,  whom,  by   your  unlawful   actions, 
you  have  this  day  let  to  mutiny  agai.nft  us.*' 

Conf.  Then  replied  the  old  Recorder,  whofe 
name  was  Mr.  Confcience,  and  faid,  "Sir,  you 
ought  not  thus  to  retort  upon  what  my  Lord  Un- 
derilandingJiath  faid.  Tis  evident  enough  that  he 
hath  fpoken  the  truth, and  that  you  are  an  enemy 
to  manfoul  :  be  "convinced  then  of  the  evil  of  your 
fancy,  and  malapert  language,  and  of  the  grief  that 
you  have  put  the  captains  to,  yea,  arid  of  the  da- 
mages that  you  have  done  to  manfoul  thereby. 
Had  you  accepted  of  the  conditious,  the  found  of 
the  trumper,  and  the  aiarm  of  war,  had  now  ceaf- 
ed  about  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  but  that  dreadful 
iound  abides,  and  your  want  of  v/ifdom  in  your 
J'peech  has  been  the  caufe  of  it." 


So  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Incred.  Then  faid  old  Incredulity,  "Sir,  if  I 
live,  1  will  do  your  errand  to  Diabolus,  and  there 
you  iliall  have  an  anfwer  to  your  words.  Mean 
while  we  will  feek  the  good  of  the  Town,  and 
not  itfk  counfel  of  you." 

Under.  "Sir,  your  prince  and  you  are  both 
foreigners  to  manfoul,  and  not  the  natives  there- 
of. And  who  can  tell  but  that  when  you  hate 
brought  us  into  greater  [traits  (when  you  alfo  ihall 
fee  that  yourfelves  can  be  fafe  by  no  other  means 
than  by  flight)  you  may  leave  us  and  fhift  for 
yourfelves  ;  or  fet  us  on  tire,  and  go  away  in  the 
fmoke,  or  by  the  light  of  our  burning,  and  fo 
leave  us  in  our  ruins." 

Incred.  "Sir,  you  forget  that  you  are  under  a 
governor,  and  that  you  ought  to  demean  your- 
ielf  like  a  fubject  ;  and,  know  ye,  when  my  Lord 
the  King  fliall  hear  of  this  day's  work,  he  will 
give  you  but  little  thanks  for  your  labour." 

Now,  while  tbefe  gentlemen  were  thus  in  their 

.*T       r  chiding;  words,  down  came  from  the 

Men  of  arms       „     P,  '  c.     ~  .     T       , 

Jj  wallsand  gates  oftheTown  the  Lord 

Willbewili.  Mr.  Prejudice,  old  Ill-paufe, 

and  feveral  of  the  new-made    aldermen    and   bur- 

gelFes  ;  and  they  afked  the  reafon  of  the  hubbub 

and  tumult.     And  wirh  that  every  man  began  to 

tell  his  own  tale,  fo  that  nothing  could  be    heard 

diitinclly.     Then  was  a  iilence  commanded,   and 

the  old  fox  Incredulity   began   to   (peak  :  "My 

Lord,"  quoth  he,  "  here   are  a   couple   of  pevifh 

gentlemen,  that  have,  as  a  fruit  of  their  bad  difpo- 

iltions,andas  a  fear,through  the  advice  of  one  Mr. 

Difcontent,  tumnltuoufly  gathered  this  company 

againft  me  this  day,  and  alfo  attempted  to  run  the 

Town  into  acts  of  rebellion  againft  our.  prince-" 

Then  flood  up  all  the  D  tbolonians  that  Wer 

tynfufmi  font,  and  affirmed  thefe  things  to  be  Ci 


The    HOLY    WAR.  81 

Now,  when  they  that  took  part  with  my  Lord 
Underitanding,  and  with  Mr.  Confcience,  per- 
ceived that  they  were  like  to  come  to  the  worft, 
for  that  force  and  power  was  on  the  other  fide  ; 
they  came  in  for  their  help  and  relief :  fo  a 
great  company  was  on  both  fides.  Then  they 
on  Incredulity's  fide  would  have  had  the  two  old 
gentlemen  prefently  away  to  prifon  ;  but  they  on 
the  other  fide  faid  they  mould  not.  Then  they 
began  to  cry  up  parties  again  :  the  Diabolonians 
cried  up  old  Incredulity,  Forgetgood,  the  new 
aldermen,  and  their  great  one  Diabolus  ;  and  the 
other  party,  they  as  fail  cried  up  Shaddai,  the 
captains,  his  laws,  their  mercifulnefs,  and  applaud- 
ed their  conditions  and  ways.  Thus  the  bicker- 
Th  f  U  menc  went  a  vvhile  ;  at  lafl  they  paffi- 
f  j     ed  from  words  to  blows  ;   and  now 

io  bl  there  wereknocks  on  both  fides.  The' 

good  old  gentleman,  Mr.  Confcience, 
was  knocked  down  twice  by  one  of  the  Diabolo-? 
nians,whofe  name  was  Mr.  Benuming.  And  my 
Lord  Underflanding  had  like  to  have  been  flain 
with  an  harqnebufs,  but  that  he  that  ihot  wanted 
to  take  his  aim  aright.  Nor  did  the  other  fide 
•wholly  efcape  ;  for  there  was  one  Mr.  Rafhhead,  a 
Diabolonian,  that  had  his  brains  beaten  out  by  Mr* 
A  hot  Mind,  the  Lord  Willbewill's  fervant  ; 
Jkirmifli.  and  it  made  me  laugh  to  fee  how  old 
Mr.  Prejudice  was  kicked  and  tumbled  about  in 
the  dirt  :  for  though  a  while  fince  he  was  made 
captain  of  a  company  with  the  Diabolonians,  to 
the  hurt  and  damage  of  the  Town  ;  yet  now  they 
toad  got  him  under  their  feet  ;  and  Til  afiure  you 
he  had,  by  fome  of  the  Lord  Underftanding's  par- 
ty, his  crown  foundly  crackt  to-boot.  Mr.  Any- 
thing alfo,  he  became  a  brifk  man  in  the  broil  ; 
but  both  £des  were  argainft  him,   becaufc  he  was 


82  The    HOLY   WAR; 

true  to  none.  Yet  he  had,  for  his  malapertnefs, 
one  of  his  legs  broken  ;  and  he  that  did  it  wifh- 
ed  it  had  been  his  neck.  Much  harm  more  w 
Harm  done  done  on  Both  fides,  but  this  mult  not 
on  both  be  forgotten  ;  it  was  now  a  wonder 

fides.  to  fee  my  Lord  Willbewill  fo  indif- 

ferent as  he  was  ;  he  did  not  feem  to  take  one 
fide  more  than  another,  only  it  was  perceived  that 
he  fmiled  to  fee  how  old  Prejudice  was  tumbled 
up  and  down  in  the  dirt  :  alfo,when  Captain  Any- 
thing came  halting  up  before  him,  he  feemed  to 
take  but  little  notice  of  him. 

Now,  when  the  uproar  was  over,Diabolus  fends 
The  two  old  for  myLord  Understanding  and  Mr. 
gent/e?nen  Confcience,  and  claps  them  both  up 
put  in  pri-  in  prifon,  as  the  ringleaders  and  ma- 
fbn,  as  the  nagers  of  this  moft  heavy  riotous  rout 
authors  of  in  manfoul.  So  now  the  town  began 
this  reve/-  to  be  quiet  again,  and  the  prifoners 
rout.  were  ufed  hardly  ;  yea  he  thought  to 

have  made  them  away,  but  that  the  prefent  junc- 
ture did  not  ferve  for  that  purpofe,  for  that  war 
was  in  all  their  gates  But  let  us  again  to  our 
flory.  The  captains,  when  they  were  gone  back 
from  the  gate,  and  were  come  into  the  camp 
again,  called  a  council  of  war,  to  confult  what  was 
The  cap-  further  for  them  to  do.  Now,  fome 
tains  call  faid,  Let  us  go  up  prefently  and  fall 
a  council,  upon  the  Town  ;  but  the  greateft  part 
and  confult  thought  rather  better  it  would  be  to 
-what  to  do.  give  them  another  fummons  to  yield  ; 
and  the  reafon  why  they  thought  this  to  be  bell 
was,  becaufe  that,  fo  far  as  could  be  perceived,  the 
town  of  manfoul  now  was  more  inclinable  than 
heretofore  :  and  if,  faid  they,  while  fomo^of  them 
are  in  a  way  of  inclination,  we  fhould  by  rugged- 
nefs  give  them  diftafte,  wc  may  fet  them  further 


The    HOLY    WAR.  83 

from  clofmg  with  our  fummons  than  we  would 
be  willing  they  mould. 

Wherefore  to  this  advice  they  agreed,  and  call- 
The  refult.  ed  a  trumpeter,  put  "words  into  his 
is,  they  fetid  mouth,  fat  him  his  time,  and  bid  him 
another  good  fpeed.     Well,  many  hours  were 

trumpeter  not  expired  before  the  trumpeter  ad- 
tofummon  drefTedhimfelf  to  his  journey:  where- 
the  Town  fore,  coming  up  to  the  wall  of  the 
to  yield.  Town,  he  fteereth  his  courfe  to  Ear- 

gate,  and  there  founded,  as  he  was  commanded. 
They  then  that  were  within  came  out  to  fee  what 
was  the  matter,  and  the  trumpeter  made  them 
this  fpeech  following  : 

"  O  hard-hearted  and  deplorable  town  of  man- 
The  fum-  foul?  how  long  wilt  thou  love  thy 
?nons  itfe/f.  finful  fimplicity,  and  ye  fools  delight 
in  fcorning  ?  As  yet  defpife  ye  the  offers  of  peace 
and  deliverance  ?  As  yet  will  ye  refufe  the  golden 
offers  of  Shaddai,  and  trufl  to  the  lies  and  falfe* 
hoods  of  Diabolus  ?  Think  you,  when  Shaddai 
fhall  have  conquered  you,  that  the  remembrance 
of  thefe  your  carriages  towards  him  will  yield  you 
peace  and  comfort  ;  or  that,  by  ruffling  language, 
you  can  make  him  afraid  as  a  grafhopper  ?  Doth 
he  entreat  you  for  fear  of  you  ?  Do  you  think 
that  you  are  flronger  than  he  ?  Look  to  the  hea- 
vens, and  behold  ;  and  confider  the  ftars,  how 
high  are  they  ?  Can  you  flop  the  fun  from  run* 
ning  his  courfe,  and  hinder  the  moon  from  giving 
her  light  ?  can  you  count  the  number  of  the 
ftars,  or  flay  the  bottles  of  heaven  ?  can  you 
call  for  the  waters  of  the  fea,  and  caufe  them  to 
cover  the  face  of  the  ground  ?  can  you  behold  e- 
vcry  one  that  is  proud  and  abafe  him,  and  bind 
their  faces  in  fecret  ?  Yet  thefe  arc  fome  of  the 
works  of  our  King,  in  whole  name,  this  day,  we 


84  The    HOLY   WAR, 

come  up  unto  you,  that  you  may  be  brought  un- 
der his  authority.  In  his  name,  therefore,  I  Turn- 
mon  you  again  to  yield  up  yourfelves  to  his 
captains." 

At  this  fummons  the  manfoulians  feemed  to  be 
<ri    cr  at  a  Hand,  and  knew  not  what  anfwer 

3e  n°W?     to  make  :  wherefore  Diabolus  forth- 

a  J  with  appeared,  and  took  upon  him  to 

do  it  himfelf,  and  thus  he  begins,  but  turns  his 
fpeech  to  them  of  manfoui  : 

"Gentlemen,"  quoth  he,  "and  my  faithful  fub- 
Diabolus  iedls,  if  it  is  true  that  this  fummoner 
makes  a  hath  faid  concerning  the  greatnefs  of 
fpeech  to  their  King,  by  his  terror  you  will  al- 
the  Town,  ways  be  kept  in  bondage,  and  fo  be 
and  endea^  made  to  fneak,  yea,  now  can  ye  now, 
vours  to  ter-  though  he  is  at  a  diftance,  endure  to 
rify  it  -with  think  of  fuch  a  mighty  one  ?  And  if 
the  great-  not  to  think  of  him  while  at  a  difl- 
nefsofGod.  ance,  how  can  you  endure  to  be  in  his 
prefence  ?  I  your  prince  am  familar  with  you,  and 
you  may  play  with  me  as  you  would  with  a  graf- 
hopper.  Confider  therefore  what  is  for  your 
profit,  and  remember  the  immunities  that  I  have 
granted  you. 

"  Further,  if  all  be  true  that  this  man  hath  faid, 
how  comes  it  to  pafs  that  the  fubjects  of  Shaddai 
are  fo  inflaved  in  all  places  where  they  come  ? 
None  in  the  univerfe  fo  unhappy  as  they,  none  fo 
trampled  upon  as  they. 

"Confider,  my  manfoui ;  would  thou  wert  as 
loath  to  leave  me  as  lam  loath  to  leave  thee  !  but 
confider,  I  fay,the  ball  is  yet  at  thy  foot  *  liberty 
you  have,if  you  know  how  to  ufe  it  :  yea,  a  king 
you  have  too,  if  you  can  tell  how  to'  love  and 
obey  him." 

Upon  this  fpeech  the  town  of  manfoui  did-again 


The    HOLY    WA  R.  85 

He  drives  harden  their  hearts  yet  more  aganit 
Man foul in-  the  captains  of  Shaddai.  The  thoughts 
to  defpair.  of  his  greatnefs  did  quite  qualh  them, 
and  the  thoughts  of  his  holinefs  funk  them  in 
defpair.  Wherefore,  after  a  fhort  confult,  they 
(of  the  Diabolonian  party  they  were)  fent  back 
7W    r   I       tn*s  wor<?  ^y  tne  trumPeter>    "That, 

(TYP71)    THJlfft*  I'm/ 

*  ,  /  flick  to  their  King,but  never  to  yield 
and  worfs,  cljj-      t    •*  u  - 

J        to  Shaddai  :   10  it  was  but  in   vain  to 

give  them  any  further  fummons,for  they  had  rather 

dieupon  theplacethanyield.  Andnowthingsfeem- 

ed  to  be  gone  quite  back,  and  manfoul  to  be  out  of 

reach  or  cail ;  yet  the  captains,  who  knew  what  their 

Lord  could  do,  would  not  yet  be  beat  out  of  heart: 

they  therefore  fent  them  another. fummons,  more 

fharp  and  fcvere  than  the  lafl  ;  but  the  oftener  they 

were  fent  to,  to  reconcile  to  Shaddai,  the  further 

rj  p     •  off  they  were.  "As  they  called  them, 

'*  '  '  afo  they  went  from  them, yea, though 
"they  called  them  to  the  moil  High." 

So  they  ceafed  that  way  to  deal  with  them  any 
The  cap-  more,  and  inclined  to  think  of-ano-. 
tains  /eavether  way.  The  captains,  therefore,  diet 
off  to  fum-  gather  themfelves  together,  to  have 
mon,  and  free  conference  among  themfelves,  to 
betake  know  what  was  yet  to  be  done  to  gain 
themfelves  the  Town,  and  to  deliver  it  from  jthe 
to  prayer,  tyranny  of  Diabolus  :  and  one  faici 
after  this  manner,  and  another  after  that.  Then 
flood  up  the  right  noble  the  Captain  Conviction, 
and  faid,  "My  brethren,  mine  opinion  is  this  : 

Firft,  "That  we  continually  play  our  flings  in- 
to the  Town, and  keep  it  in  a  continual  alarm, mo-, 
letting  of  them  day  and  night  :  by  thus  doing  we 
fhall  flop  the  growth  of  their  rampant  fpirit,  for 
a  lion  may  be  tamed  by  continual  moleflation. 
H 


86  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Secondly,  "This  done,  I  advife  that,  in  the  next 
place,  we,  with  oneconfent,  draw  up  a  petition  to 
our  Lord  Shaddai,  by  which,  after  we  have  fhew- 
ed  our  King  the  condition  of  manfoul,  and  of 
affairs  here,  and  have  begged  his  pardon  for  our 
no  better  fuccefs  ;  we  will  earneftly  implore  his 
Majefty's  help,  and  that  he  will  pleafe  to  fend  us 
more  force  and  .power,  and  fome  gallant  and  well- 
jfpoken  commander  to  head  them,  that  fo  his  Ma- 
jeity  ma^  not  lofe  the  benefit  of  thefe  his  good 
beginnings,  but  may  complete  his  conqueft  upon 
the  town  of  manfoul." 

To  this  fpeech  of  the  noble  Captain  Conviction 
they,  as  one  man,  confented,  and  agreed  that  a 
petition  mould  forthwith  be  drawn  up,  and  fent 
by  a  fit  man  away  to  Shaddai  with  fpeed.  The 
contents  of  the  petition  were  thus : 

"Mod  gracious  and  glorious  King,  the  Lord 
of  the  beft  world,  and  the  builder  of  the  town  of 
manfoul  ;  we  have,  dread  Sovereign,  at  thy  com- 
mandment, put  our  lives  in  jeopardy,  and,  at  thy 
bidding  made  a  war  upon  the  famous  town  of 
manfoul.  When  we  went  up  againft  it,  we  did, 
Mat.  x^ii.  according  to  our  CQmmiffion,firft,o:ffer 
5.  conditions  of  peace  unto  it :  but  they, 

Prov.  i.  25.  great  King  !  fet  light  by  our  counfel, 
Zech.  vii.  and  would  none  of  our  reproof;  they 
•10, — -13.  were  for  (hutting  of  their  gates,  and 
for  keeping  us  out  of  the  Town  ;  they  alfo  mount- 
ed their  guns,  they  fallied  out  upon  us,  and  have 
done  us  what  damage  they  could.  But  we  pur- 
fued  them  with  alarm  upon  alarm,  requiting  of 
them  with  fuch  retribution  as  was  meet,  an3  have 
done  fome  execution  upon  the  Town. 

"Diabolus,  Incredulity, and  Willbewill,  are  the 
great  doers  againft  us,  now  we  are  in  bin*' winter- 


The    HOLY    WAR.  87 

quarters  ;  but  fo  as  that  we  do  yet  with  an   high 
hand  moleit  and  diftrefs  the  Town. 

"Once,  as  we  think,  had  we  had  but  one  fub- 
ftantial  friend  in  the  Town,  fuch  as  would  be: 
have  feconded'  the  found  of  our  fmnmons,  as  he 
ought,  the  people  might  have  yielded  themfelves; 
but  there  were  none  but  enemies  there,  nor  any  to 
fpeak  in  behalf  of  our  Lord  to  the  Town  :  where- 
fore, though  we  have  done  as  we  could,  yet  man- 
foul  abides  in  a  flate  of  rebellion  againft  thee. 

lC  Now,  King  of  kings,  let  it  pleafe  thee  to  par- 
don the  unfuccefsfulncfs  of  thy  fervants,  who  have 
been  no  more  advantageous  in  fo  dcfirable  a  work 
as  the  conquering  of  manfoul  is  ;  and  fend,  Lord, 
as  we  now  defire,  more  forces  to  manfoul,  that  it 
may  be  fubdued  ;  and  a  man  to  head  them  that 
the  Town  may  both  love  and  fear. 

u  We  do  not  thus  fpeak,  becaufe  we  are  wilk 
ing  to  relinquifh  the  wars  (for  we  are  for  laying 
of  our  b3nes  againft. the  place)  but  that  the  town 
of  manfoul  may  be  won  for  thy.  Majefty.  We  alfo 
pray  thy  Majelty  for  expedition  in  this  matter, 
that,  after  their  conqueft,  we  may  be  at  liberty  to 
be  fent  about  other  thy  gracious  defigns.    Amen? 

The  petition,  thus  drawn  up,  was  fent  away.; 
IV bo  fi»rr/-with  hade  to  the  King,  by  the  hand 
ed  this  pe~  of  that  good  man,  Mr*  Love-to-man* 
ti.t  ion.  foul. 

When  this  petition  was  come  to  the.  palace  0 
To  whom  the  King,  who  mould  it  be  delivered 
it  was  de-to  but  to  the  King's  Son  ?  So  he  took 
livered,  it,  and  read  it  ;  and,  becaufe  the  con- 
tents of  it  pleafed  him  well,  he  mended,  and  alia 
in  fome  things  added  to  the  petition  himfelf.  So, 
after  he  had  made  fuch  amendments  and  additions 
as  he  thought  convenient  with  his  own  hand,  he 
carried  it  into  the  King  ;  to  whom,  when  ho?  had 
H  2 


88  The     HOLY    WAR. 

with  obfervance  delivered  it,  he  pur  on  authority, 
and  fpake  to  it  himfelf. 

Now  the  King,  at  the  fight  of  the  petition,  was 
'The  King  glad  ;  but  how  much  more,think  you, 
receives  it  when  it  was  feconded  by  his  Son  I  It 
with  glad-  pleafed  him  alfo  to  hear  that  his  fer- 
nefs.  vants    that    camped     againft  manfoul 

were  fo  hearty  in  the  work, and  fo  itedfaft  in  their 
refolves,  and  that  they  had  already  got  fome 
ground  upon  the  famous  town  of  manfoul. 

Wherefore  the  King  called  to  him  Emmanuel 
The  King  his  Son,  who  faid,  Here  am  I,  my 
calls  bis  Son,  Father.  Then  faid  the  King,  Thou 
and  tells  £/>/2,knowefr,as  I  domyfelf,the  condition 
that  he  Jhall  of  the  town  of  manfoul, and  what  we 
go  to  conquer  have  purpofed,  and  what  thou  halt 
the  town  of  done  to  redeem  it.  Come  now,there- 
' Manfoul ;  fore,  my  Son, and  prepare  thyfelf  for 
and  he  is  the  war  ;  for  thou  (halt  to  go  my  camp 
f  leafed  at  at  manfoul  :  thou  ihalt  alfo  there  prof- 
;/.  Heb.  x.  7.  per,  and  prevail,  and  conquer  the 
town  of  manfoul. 

Then  faid  the  King's  Son,  "Thy  law  is  within 
He  is  him-  my  heart.  I  delight  to  do  thy  will. 
fe/f  delight-  This  is  the  day  that  I  have  longed 
ed  with  the  for,  and  the  work  that  I  have  waited 
thoughts  of  for,  all  this  while.  Grant  me,  there- 
this  work.  fore,  what  force  thou lhalt  in  thy  wif- 
dom  think  meet,  and  I  will  go,  and  will  deliver 
from  Diabolus,  and  from  his  power,  thy  peri/hing 
town  of  manfoul.  My  heart  has  been  often  pained 
within  me  for  the  miferable  town  of  manfoul ;  but 
now  it  is  rejoiced,  but  now  it  is  glad.  And  with 
that  he  leaped  over  the  mountains  for  joy,  faying, 

I  have  nor,  in  my  heart,  thought  any  thing  too 
dear  for  manfoul.  The  day  of  vengeance  is  in  my 
heart,  for  thee,  my  manfoul ;  and  glad  am  I   1 ' 


The    HOLY   WAR.  89 

Heb.  ii.  10.  thou, my  Father, haft  mademe  the  Cap- 
tain of  their  Salvation  :  and  I  will  now  begin  to 
plague  all  thofe  that  have  been  a  plague  to  my  town 
of  manfoul,  and  will  deliver  it  from  their  hand. 

When  the  King's  Son  had  faid  thus  to  his  Father, 
it  prefently  flew  like  lightning  round  about  at 
court,  yea,  it  there  became  the  only  talk,  what 
Emmanuel  was  to  go  to  do  for  the  famous  town 
The  highefl  of  manfoul.  But  you  cannot  think 
peer  in  the  how  the  courtiers,  too,  were  taken 
kingdom  with  this  defign  of  the  Prince  ;  yea, 
covets  to  go  fo  affected  were  they  with  this  work, 
on  this  de~  and  with  the  juftnefs  of  the  war,  that 
fign.  the    higheil   lord    and    greateft  peer 

of  the  kingdom  did  covet  to  have ■  commiffions  un- 
der Emmanuel,  to  go  to  help  to  recover  again,   to  • 
Shaddai  the  miferable  town  of  manfoul. 

Then  was  it  concluded  that  fome  mould  go  and 
carry  tidings  to  the  camp,. that  Emmanuel  was  to 
come  to  recover  manfoul,  and  that  he  would  bring 
along  with  him  fo  mighty,  fo  impregnable  a  force, 
that  he  could  not  be  refitted.-. But,  oh,  how  ready- 
were  the  high  ones  at  court  to  run  likelacquies  to 
carry  thefe  tidings  to  the  camp  that  was  ac  man- 
foul !  Now,  when  the  captains  perceived  that  the 
King  would  fend  Emmanuel  his  Son,  and  that  it 
The  camp  alfo  delighted  the  Son  to  be  fent  on 
Jh  outs  for  this  errand  by  the  great  Shaddai.  his 
joy  when  Father,  they  alfo,  to  fhew  how  they- 
they  hear  were  pleafed  at  the  thoughts  of  his 
the  tidings  coming,  gave  a  fliout  that  made  the 
earth  rend  at  the  found  thereof  ;  yea,  the  moun- 
tains did  anfwer  again  by  echo,  and  Diabolus 
himfelf  did  totter  and  make. 

For  you  mutt  know,  that  though  the  town  of 
manfoul  itfelf  was  not  much,  if  at  ail,  concerned 
with  the  proje<fr(for;ala$  for  them  !  they  were  woe* 

H3  -_ 


9o  The  HOLY  WAR. 

fully  befotted,for  they  chiefly  regarded  their  plea- 
fure  and  lnftsj  yet  Diabolus  their  governor  was  : 
Diabolus        for  he  had  his  fpies  continually  abroad, 
afraid  at  the  who  brought  him  intelligence  of  all 
nezvs  of  bis   things ;  and  they  told  him  what    was 
coming.         doing  at  court  againit  him,  and    that 
Emmanuel  would  certainly  come   fhortly  with   a 
power  to  invade  him.   Nor  was  there  any  man  at 
court,  nor  peer  of  the  kingdom,  that  Diabolus    fo 
feared,  as  he  feared  this  Prince.     For,  if  you   re- 
member, I  fhewed  you  before  that   Diabolus  had 
felt  the  weight  of  his  hand  already  ;  fo  that,fince 
it  wis  he  that  was  to  come,thismade  hioUhemore 
afraid.     Well,  you  fee  how  I  have  told  you   that 
the  King's  Son  was    engaged    to   come  from   the 
court  to  fave  man  foul,   and  rhat  his  Father   had 
The  Prince  made  him  the  captain  of    the   forces  : 
add'reffes       the  time,  therefore,  of  hisfetting  forth 
felffor  beirvg  now  expired,  he  addreffed  him- 
journey,  ft  If  for  his  march,  and  takethwith  him, 
.   for  his  power,  five  noble  captains  and  their  forces, 
i.  The  flrif  was  the  famous  captain,  the  noble 
i  Credence  ;  his  were  the  red  Colours,    and 
i  i.  29.    Mr.  Promife   bare  them  ;  and    for   a 
;  £j££\  vi.  i6.fcurcheon  he  had  the  Holy   Lamb  and 
hh  Shield.     And  he  had  ten  thoufand  men   at 
h   his  1 

2.  The  fecond    was    that  famous  captain,    the 

Captain    Good-Hope   ;   his   were  the 

■'tf/ueVofmirr:  his  flandard-bearer  was 

.'•  Mr.  Expectation  ;  and  for  a  fcutcheon  he  had  the 

three  golden  Anchors.'    and  he   had   ten    thoufand 

men  at  his  feet. 

3.  The  third  captain  was  that   v  :it, 
,  n         ...     t i .e  C  puin    Charity:   his 

be:r  Mr.  Pitiful  ;  hi 

green  Colours }  and  for  his  fcutcheon  he 


The    HOLY    WAR.  9t 

naked  Orphans  embraced  in  the  bofom.  And  he  had 

ten  thoufand  men  at  his  hei. 

4.    The   fourth   was  the   gallant  commander, 

the  Captain  Innocent  :   his  ftandard- 
Mat.  x.  16.    bearer  was  Mr>  Harn]|efs  .    his  ,vere 

the  -white  Colours,  and  for  his  fcutcheon  he  had 
the  three  golden  Doves. 

5*.  The  fifth  was  the  truly  loyal  and  well-be- 
loved captain,  the  Captain  Patience  :  his  ftan- 
dard-bearer  was  Mr.  Stiffen-long  ;  his  were  the 
black  Colours  ;  and  for  a  fcutcheon  he  had  three 
arrozvs  through  the  go/den  Heart. 

Thefe  were   Emmanuel's   captains,  thefe  their 

ftandard-bearers,    their  colours,    and    their   fcut- 

Faith  and      cheons,  and  thefe  the  men  under  their 

-patience  do    command.     So,  as  was  faid,  the  brave 

the  work.       Piince  took  his   march,  to  go  to  the 

town  of  manfoul.      Captain  Credence  led  the  van 

tt  7     •  and  Captain  Patience  brought  up  tliQ 

Heb.  vi.  12.  V     1         1         r.  •  u    1    - 

rear  :  io  the  other  three  with  their 

men  made  up  the  main  body  ;    the  Prince  himfelf 

riding  in  his  chariot  at  the  head  of  them. 

But,  when  they  fet  out  for  their  march,  oh  how 

the  trumpets  founded,  their  armour  glittered,  and 

how  the  colours  waved  in  the  wind  !  The  Prince's- 

-armour  was  all  of  gold,  and  it    flione  like  the  fun 

in  the  firmament.      The   captains' armour  was -of; 


crj   •    A       1    proof,    and   was  in  appearance  like 

the  glittering  itars.  There  v 
alfo  fome  from  the  court  that  rode-  reformadocs, 
for  the  love  that  they  had  to  the  King  Shaddaiyand 
for  the  happy  deliverance  of  the  town  of  manfouK 
Emmanuel  alfo,  when  he  had  thus  fet  forwards 
The  H-j/y  to  go  to  recover  the  town  of  manfoul, 
Bible,  cph  took  with  him,  at  the  commandment 
lainin j  66  of  his  Father,  fifty-four  battering-rams 
books.,         and  twelve  flings  to  whirl  Hones  with- 


92  The    HOLY    WAR. 

all.  Every  one  of  thefe  was  made  of  pure  gold, 
and  thefe  they  carried  with  them  in  the  heart  and 
body  of  their  army,  all  along  as  they  went  to 
manfoul. 

So  they  marched  till  they  came  within  lefs  than 
a  league  of  the  Town,  and  there  they  lay  till  the 
firft  four  captains  came  thither  to  acquaint  him 
The  forces  with  matters.  Then  they  took  their 
joined  with  journey  to  go  to  the  town  of  manfoul, 
rejoicing.  and  unto  manfoul  they  came  ;  bur, 
when  the  old  foldiers  that  were  in  the  camp  Jaw 
that  they  had  new  forces  to  join  with,  they  again 
gave  fuch  a  fliout  before  the  walls  of  the  town  of 
manfoul,  that  it  put  Diabolus  into  another  fright. 
So  they  fat  down  before  the  Town,  not  now  as 
the  other  four  captains  did,  to  wit,  againft  the 
Manfoul  be-  gates  of  manfoul  only,  but  they  en- 
leagured  vironed  it  round  on  every  fide,  and 
round.  befet  it  behind  and  before  ;    fo  that 

now,  let  manfoul  look  which  way  it  will,  it  law 
force  and  power  lye  in  fiege  againft  it.  Befldes, 
there  were  mounts  cad  up  againft  it. 

The  Mount  Gracious  was  on  the  one  fide,  and 
Mounts  caft  Mount  Juftice  was  on  the  other. 
up  againft  it.  Further,  there  were  feveral  fmall 
banks,  and  advance-ground,  as  Plain-truth-hill  and 
No-fin-banks,  where  many  of  the  flings  were  pla- 
ced againft  the  Town.  Upon  Mount  Gracious 
were  planted  four,  and  upon  Mount  juftice  were 
placed  as  many,  and  the  reft  were  conveniently 
placed  in  feveral  parts  round  about  the  Town  : 
five  of  the  beft  battering-rams,  that  is,  of  the  big- 
geft  of  them,  were  placed  upon  Mount  Hearken, 
a  mount  caft  up  hard  by  Ear-gare,  with  intent  to 
break  that  open. 

Now  when  the  men  of  the  Town  i\\v  -the  mul- 
titude of  the  foldiers  that  were  come  up. againft 


The    HOLY    WAR.  93 

the  place,  and  the  rams  and  ilings,  and  the  mounts 
on  which  they  were  planted,  together  with  the 
glittering  of  the  armour,  and  the  waving  of  their 
The  heart  colours,  they  were  forced  to  ihifc, 
of  Manfoul  and  fhift,  and  again  to  fhift  their 
begins  to  thoughts  :  but  they  hardly  changed 
fail,  for    thoughts   more   flout,  but  rather 

for  thoughts  more  faint.  For  though  before  they 
thought  themfelves  fufficiently  guarded,  yet  now 
they  began  to  think  that  no  man  knew  what  would 
be  their  hap  or  lot. 

When  the  good  Prince  Emmanuel  had  thus  be- 
The  white  leagured  manfoul,  in  the  firit  place  he 
flag  hung  hangs  cut  the  white  flag,  which  he 
out,  caufed  to  be  fet  up  among    the   golden 

flings  that  were  planted  upon  Mount  Gracious. 
And  this  he  did  for  two  reafons  ;  1.  To  give  no- 
tice to  manfoul  that  he  could  and  would  yet  be 
gracious  if  they  turned  to  him.  2.  And  that  he 
might  leave  them  the  more  without  excufe,  mould 
he  deifroy  them,  they  continuing  in  their  re* 
bellion. 

So  the  white  flag,  with  the  three  golden  Doves 
in  it,  was  hanged  out  for  two  days  together,  to 
give  them  time  and  fpace  to  confider.  But  they, 
as  was  hinted  before,  as  if  they  were  unconcerned, 
made  no  reply  to  the  favourable  fignal  of  the 
Prince. 

Then  he  commanded,  and  they  {tt  the  red  flag 
The  red  flag  upon  that  mount  called  Mount  Jufc 
,  hung  out,  ice.  It  was  the  red  flag  of  Captain 

;  Judgment,  whofe  fcutcheon  was  the  burning  fiery 
Furnace  ;  and  this  alfo  flood  waving  before  them 
in  the  wind  for  feveral  days  together.  But  look 
how  they  carried  under  the  white  flag  when  that 
was  hanged  out,  fo  did  they  alfo  when  the  red  one 
was  ;  and  yet  he  took  no  advantage  of  them. 


94  The   HOLY   WAR. 

Then  he  commanded  again,  that  his  fervants 
The  black  would  hang  out  the  black  flag  of  defi- 
flag  hung  ance  againft  them,  whofe  icutcheon 
out*  was    the   three    burning   Thunder-bolts  ; 

but  as  unconcerned  was  manfoul  at  this  as  at 
thofethat  went  before.  But  when  the  Princefaw 
th^t  neicher  mercy  nor  judgment,  nor  execution 
of  judgment,  would  or  could  come  near  the  heart 
of  manfoul,  he  was  touched  with  much  compunc- 
tion, and  faid,  Surely  this  ftrange  carriage  of  the 
town  of  manfoul  doth  rather  arife  from  ignorance 
Chrifl  of  the  manner  and  feats   of  war,   than 

makes  not  from  a  fecret  defiance  of  us,  and  ab- 
war  as  the  horrence  of  their  own  lives  :  or,  if 
world  does,  they  know  the  manner  of  the  war  of. 
their  own,  yet  not  the  rites  and  ceremonies  of  the 
wars  in  which  we  are  concerned,  when  I  make 
wars  upon  mine  enemy  Diabolus. 

Therefore  he  fent  to  the  town  of  manfoul,  to 
He  fends  to  let  them  know  what  he  meant  by 
know  if  thofe  figns  and  ceremonies  of  the  flags, 
they  would  and  alfo  to  know  of  them  which  of 
have  mercy  the  things  they  will  chufe,  whether 
onjuftice  grace  and  mercy,  or  judgment  and 
the  execution  of  judgment.  All  this  while  they 
kept  their  gates  (hut  with  locks,  bolts,  and  bars, 
as  fad  as  they  could  ;  their  guards  alio  were  dou- 
bled,and  their  watch  made  as  itrongas  they  could; 
Diabolus  alfo  did  pluck  up  what  heart  he  could 
to  encourage  the  Town  to  make  reiiflance. 

The  townfmen  alfo  made  anfwer  to  the  Prince's 
meffenger,  in  fubftance,  according  to  that  which 
follows  : 

"Great  Sir,  as  to  what  by  your  meffenger  you 

The  townf-      have  fignified   to   us,,  whether    we 

folks'  an-         will  accept   of  your  me'rey,  or  fall 

fiver.  by  your  juftice,  we  are   bound  by 


The   HOLY    WAR.  9S 

the  law  and  cuftcm  of  this  place,  and  can  give 
you  no  pofitive  anfwer  :  for  it  is  againft  the  law, 
government,  and  the  prerogative  royal  of  our 
King,  to  make  either  peace  or  war  without  him. 
But  this  we  will  do,  we  will  petition  that  our 
Prince  will  come  down  to  the  wall,  and  there 
give  you  fuch  treatment  as  he  mall  think  fit  and 
profitable  for  us."  g  ^ 

When  the  good  Prince  Emmanuel  heard  this 
Emmanuel  anfwer,  and  fa w  the  flavery  and  bon- 
grievedat  dage  of  the  people,  and  how  much 
the  folly  of  content  they  were  to  abide  in  the 
'Manful,  chains  of  the  tyrant  Diabolus,  it  grie- 
ved him  at  the  heart.  And  indeed,  when  at  any 
time  he  perceived  that  any  were  contented  under 
"the  flavery  of  the  Giant,  he  would  be  affected 
with  it. 

But,  to  return  again  to  our  purpofe.  After  the 
Town  had  carried  this  news  to  Diabolus,  and  had 
told  him,  moreover,  that  the  Prince  that  lay  in 
Diabolus  the  leaguer  without  the  wall,  waited 
afraid.  upon  them  for  an  anfwer  ;  he  refufed, 
and  huffed  as  well  as  he  could,  but  in  heart  he  was 
afraid. 

Then  faid,  he  I  will  go  down  to  the  gates  my- 
felf,  and  give  him  fuch  an  anfwer  as  I  think  fit. 
So  he  went  down  to  Mouth-gate,  and  there  ad- 
dreffed  himfelf  to  fpeak  to  Emmanuel  (but  in  fuch 
language  as  the  Town  underftood  not)  the  con- 
tents whereof  were  as  follow  : 

"  O  thou  great  Emmanuel,  Lord  of  all  the 
Hisfpeecb  world,  I  know  thee,  that  thou  arc  the 
to  the  Son  of  the  great  Shaddai  !  Where- 
Prince,  fore  art  thou  come  to  torment  me,  and 
to  call  me  out  of  my  poffeffion  ?  This  town  of  man- 
foul,  as  thou  very  well  knoweft,  is  mine,  and  that 
by  a  rwo-fold  right,    i,  It  is  mine  by  right  of  con- 


the 


96  The    HOLY    WAR. 

queft,  I  won  it  in  the  open  field  :  and  "mall 
"prey  be  taken  from  the  mighty,  or  the  lawful 
t*  captive  be  delivered  ?"  2.  This  town  of  manfoul 
is  mine  alfo  by  their  fubjection  :  they  have  opened 
the  gates  of  theirTown  unto  me;  they  have  fworn 
fidelity  to  me,  and  have  openly  chofen  me  to  be 
t,a  their  King  :  they  have  alio  given  their 
^^  '  Cattle  into  my  hands  ;  yea,  they  have  put 
the  whole  ttrength  of  manfoul  under  me. 

"Moreover,  this  town  of  manfoul  hath  dis- 
avowed thee-:  yea,  they  have  caft  thy  law,  thy 
name,  thy image,and  all  that  is  thine,  behind  their  ft 
backs ;  and  have  accepted,  and  fet  up  in  their  room  * 
my  law,  my  name,  mine  image,  and  all  that  ever  is 
mind.  Afk  elfe  thy  captains,  and  they'  will  tell 
thee  that  manfoul  hath,  inanfwer  to  all  their  fum- 
monfes,  ihown  love  and  loyalty  to  me  ;  but  always 
difdain,  defpite,  contempt,  and  fcorn,  to  thee  and 
thine.  Now  thou  art  the  juft  One, and  the  Holy, 
and  fhouldlt  do  no  iniquity  ;  depart  then,  I  pray 
thee,  therefore,  from  me,  and  leave  me  tomyjuit 
inheritance  peaceably." 

This  oration  was  made  in  the  language  of  Dia- 
bolus  himfelf :  for  although  he  can,  to  e\ery  man 
fpeak  in  their  own  language  (c\k  he  could  not 
tempt  them  all  as  he  does)  yet  he  has  a  language 
proper  to  himfelf,  and  it  is  the  language  of  the 
inf?rnal  Cave  or  black  Pit. 

Wherefore  the  town  of  manfoul  (poor  hearts) 
underftood  him  not  ;  nor  did  they  fee  how  he 
crouched  and  cringed  while  he  flood  before  Em- 
manuel their  Prince. 

Yea,  they  all  this  while  took  him  to  be  one  of 
that  power  and  force  that  by  no  means  could  be 
refitted  :  wherefore,  while  he  was  thus  entreating- 
that  he  might  have  yet  his  reildencc  and 

that  Emmanuel  would  not  take  it  from   I 


The   HOLY    WAR.  97- 

force,  the  inhabitants  boafted,e,ycn  of  his  valour, 
faying,  "Who*is  able  to  make  wajrwith  him  I" 

Well,  when  this  pretended  king  had  made  an 
end -of  what  he  would  fay,  Emmanuel  the  Golden 
Prince  flood  up  and  (pake  ;  the  contents  of  whofe 
words  follow  : 

"  Thou  deceiving  One,"  faidhe,  "I  have,  in  my 
Father's  name,  in  mine  own  name,  and  on  th^jbe- 
half  and  for  the  good  of  this  wretched  town  of 
manfoul,  fomewhat  to  fay  unto  thee.  Thou  pre- 
tended a  right,  a  lawful  righr,  to  the  deplorable 
town  of  manfoul  ;  when  it  is  mod  apparent  to  all 
'  my  Father's  court,  that  the  entrance  which  thou 
hail  obtained  in  at  the  gates  of  manfoul  was 
through  thy  lie  and  falfehood  ;  thou  beliedft  my 
Father,  thou  beliedft  his  law,  and  fo  deceived!!  the 
people  of  manfoul.  Thou  pretendeft  that  the 
people  have  accepted  thee  for  theirking,  their  cap- 
tain, and  right  liege  lord  ;  but  that*alfo  whs  by 
the  exercife  of  deceit  and  guile.  Now,  if  lying 
willingnefs,  finful  craft,  and  all  manner  of  horrible 
hypocrify,  will  go  in  my  Father's  court  (in  which 
court  thou  muft  be  triedj  for  equity  and  right, 
then  will  I  confefs  unto  thee  that  thou  haft  made 
-•a  lawful  conqueft.  Bur,  alas  !  what  thief,  what 
tyrant,  what  devil,  is  there  that  may  not  conquer 
after  this  fort  ?  But  I  can  make  it  appear,  O  Dia- 
bolus,  that  thou,  in  all  thy  pretences  to  a  conqueft 
of  manfoul  haft  nothing  of  truth  to  fay.  Think>- 
eft  thou  this  to  be  right,  that  thou  didft  put  the  lie 
upon  my  Father,  and  madeft  him  (to  manfoul)  the 
greateft  deluder  in  the  world  ?  And  what  fayeft 
thou  to  thy  perverting  knowingly  the  right  purport 
and  intent  of  the  law  ?  Was  it  good  alfo  that  thou 
madeft  a  prey  of  the  innocency  and  fimplicity  of 
the  now  miferable  town  of  manfoul  ?  Yea,  thou 
didll  overcome  manfoul  by  promifing  to  them  hap- 


>3  The    HOLY    WAR. 

pinefs  in  their  tranfgreffions  againlt  my  Father's 
law,  when  thoulcn'ewell,  and couldtt  hot  but  know, 
h  ad  it  thou  confultcd  nothing  but  thine  own  expe- 
rience, that  that  was  the  way  to  undo  them.  Thou 
hail  alfo  thyfelf  (O  thou  matter  of  enmity)  of  fpite 
defaced  my  Father's  image  in  manfouJ,  and  fet  up 
thy  own  in  its  place,  to  the  great  contempt  of  my 
Fa^r  the  heightening  of  thy  fin, and  to  the  intol- 
erable damage  of  the  perilling  town  of  manfoul. 
"  Thou  haft,  moreover  (as  if  all  thefe  were  but 
litde  things  with  thee)  not  only  deluded  and  un- 
done this  place  ;  but  by  thy  lies,  and  fraudulent 
carriage,  halt  fet  them  againlt  their  own  deliver- 
ance. How  haft  thou  itirred  them  up  againlt  my 
Father's  captains,  and  made  them  to  fight  againlt 
thofe  that  were  fent  of  him  to  deliver  them  from 
their  bondage  i  All  thefe  things,  and  very 
many  more,  thou  halt  done  againlt  thy  light,  and 
in  contempt  of  my  Father,  and  of  his  law  ;  yea, 
and  with  a  delign  to  bring  under  his  difpleafure  for 
ever  the  miferable  town  of  manfoul.  I  am,  there- 
fore,come  to  avenge  the  wrong  that  thou  halt 
done  to  my  Father,  and  to  deal  with  thee  for  the 
blafphemies  where  withthou  halt  made  poor  manfoul 
blafpheme  his  name  ;  yea,  upon  thy  head,  thou 
prince  of  the  infernal  cave,  will  I  require  it. 

■  '  As  formyfelf,  O  Diabolus,  I  am  come  againlt 
thee  by  lawful  power,  and  to  take  by  Itrength  of 
iiand  this  town  of  manfoul  out  of  thy  burning 
fingers  ;  for  this  town  of  manfoul  is  mine,  O  Dia- 
bolus, and  that  by  undoubted  rig^t,  as  all  lhall 
fee  that  will  diligently  fearch  the  molt  ancient 
and  molt  authentic  records  ;  and  I  will  plead  my 
title  ro  it  to  the  confufion  of  thy  face. 

"  Firft^for  the  town  of  manfoul,  my  Father 
hath  bdlK  and  did  falhion  it  with  his  hand ^  the 
palace  alfo^that  is  in  the  midlt  of  that  Town,  he 


The      HOLY    WAR,  99 

built  it  for  his  own  delight  :*  This  town  ofmanfoul 
therefore  is  my  Father's,  and  that  by  the  befb  of 
titles  ;  and  he  that  gainfays  the  truth  of  this  mull 
Jie  againtt  his  foul. 

"  Secondly,  O  thou  matter  of  the  lie,  this  town 
ofmanfoul  is  mine  : 

"  I.  For  that  I  am  my  Father's  heir,  his  flrtt- 
Heb.\\.  2.  born,  and  the  only  delight  of  his  heart. 
John  xvi.  I  am  therefore  ccme  up  againit  thee  in 
iy.  mine  own  right,  even  to  recover  mine 

own  inheritance  out  of  thine  hand. 

"  2.  But  further,  as  I  have  a  right  and  title  to 
manfoul,  by  being  my  Father's;  heir,  fo  I  have  alfo 
by  my  Father's  donation.  His  it  was,  and  he  gave 
«v  j  ..  it  me  ;  nor  have  I  at  any  time  offend- 
Jobn™u  ed  my  Father,  that  he  fhould  take  it 
from  me,  and  give  it  to  thee  :  nor  have  I  been 
jn    |  forced,    by    playing  the    bankrupt,  to 

*  fell,  or  fet  to  fale  to    thee,  my   beloved 

town  ofmanfoul.  Manfoul  is  my  dcfire,  my  de- 
light, and  the  joy  of  my  heart.     But, 

u  3.     Manfoul  is  mine  by  right  of  ptirchafe  3  I, 

have  bought  it  (O  Diabolus)    1   have    brought  it 

to  myfelf.  Now,fince  it  was  my  Fatherland  mine 

as  I  was  his  heir,    and    flnce   alfo   1  have  made  it 

mine  by  virtue  of  a  great  purchafe  ;  it  follower}** 

that,  by  all  lawful  right,  the  town   of  manfoul  b 

mine,  and  that  thou  art  an  nfurper,    a  tyrant  an$ 

traitor,  in  thy  holding  poffeilion  thereof.      Now, 

the  caufe  of  my  purchaling  of  it  was  this  :    m  n~ 

foul  had  trefpaffed  againflmy  Father  ;  now  my.  Fa-* 

ther  had  faid,  That  in  the  day  that  they  broke  his 

7\^t  ,r  ,q  *'aw  tneY  fliould  die.  Now,  it  is 
Mat,  v.  10.  £,  ,    r       ,  '      t 

more  poiuble  for   heaven    and  earth 

to  pafs  away,  than    for  my   Father   to  break  his 
word.     Wherefore,  when  manfoul  had  finned  in- 
deed, by  a  hearkening  to  thy   lie,   I  put  in  and 
I  2 


ioo  The    HOLY   W  A  R. 

became  a  furety  to  my  Father,  body  for  body, 
and  foul  for  foul,  that  I  would  make  amends  for 
m.infoul's  tranfgrellions ;  and  my  Father  did  accept 
0  fweet  thereof.  So  when  the  time  appointed 
Prince  was  come,  I  gave  body  for  body,  foul, 
Emmanuel,  for  foul,  life  for  life,  blood  for  blood, 
and  fo  redeemed  my  beloved  manfoul. 

"  4.  Nor  did  I  do  this  to  the  halves  ;  my  Fa- 
ther's law  and  juliice,  that  were  both  concerned 
in  the  threatening  upon  tranfgrefTion,  are  both 
now  fatisfled,  and  very  well  content  that  manfoul 
fhould  be  delivered. 

"  5.  Nor  am  I  come  out  this  day  againft  thee, 
but  by  commandment  of  my  Father  ;  it  was  he 
that  faid  unto  me,  Go  down  and  deliver  manfoul. 

"  Wherefore,  be  it  known  unto  thee  (O  thou 
fountain  of  deceit)  and  be  it  alfo  known  to  the 
foolifh  town  of  manfoul,  that  I  am  not  come  a- 
gainlt    thee  this  day  without  my  Father. 

"  And  now  (faid  the  golden-headed  Prince)  I 
have  a  word  to  the  town  of  manfoul."  (But  fo 
foon  as  mention  was  made  that  he  had  word  to 
fpeak  to  the  befotted  town  of  manfoul,  the  gates 
Were  double  guarded,  and  all  men  commanded  not 
to  give  him  audience.)  So  he  proceeded  and  faid, 
u  O  unhappy  town  of  manfoul,  I  cannot  but  be 
touched  with  pity  and  companion  for  thee.  Thou 
haft  accepted  of  Dkibolus  for  thy  king,  and  art 
become  a  nurfe  and  a  minifter  of  Diabolonians  a- 
gainft  thy  Sovereign  Lord.  Thy  gates  thou  haft 
opened  to  him,  but  haft  fhut  them  faft  againft  me  ; 
thou  haft  given  him  a  hearing,  but  haft  flopt  thine 
earsatmycry;  hebrowght  totheethy  deftruclion, 
andthoudidft  receive  both  him  and  it  :  I  am  come 
to  thee  bringing  falvation,  but  thou  regarded  me 
not.  Befides,  thou  haft,  as  with  facrilegious  hands, 
taken  thyfelf,  with  all  that  was  mine  in  thee>  and 


The    HOLY    WAR.  ioi 

haft  given  all  to  my  foe,  and  to  the  greateft  enemy 
my  Father  has.  You  have  bowed  and  fubjected 
yourfeJ  ves  to  him ;  you  have  vowed  and  fworn  y  our- 
jelves  to  be  his.  Poor  manfoul  !  what  fhall  I  do 
unto  thee  ?  Shall  Ifave  thee  ?  fhall  Ideilroy  thee  ? 
What  fhall  I  do  unto  thee  ?  Shall  I  fall  upon  thee 
and  grind  thee  to  powder,  or  make  the  a  monu- 
ment of  the  richell  grace  ?  What  fhall  I  do  unto 
thee  ?  Hearken,  therefore,  thou  town  of  manfoul, 
hearken  to  my  word,  and  thou  fhalc  live.  I  am 
r  merciful,  manfoul,  and  thou  fhalt  find 

me  fo  ;  fliut  me  not  out  at  thy  gates. 
11  O  manfoul,  neither  is  my  commiflion   nor   in- 
clination at  all  to  do  thee  hurt  ;  why  fleeft  thou  fo> 
cy  /     ,♦•        fail  from  thy  friend,  and    ftickeft    fo 

T  i  k*'     c^e  to  tn*ne  enem>'  •  Indeed  I  would 
*'  '  have  thee,  becaufe  it  becomes  thee,  ta 

*  '  be  forry  for  thy  fin  y  but  do  not  defpair- 

of  life:  This  great  force  is  not  to  hurt  thee,  but  to 
deliver  thee  from  thy  bondage,  and  to  reduce  thee 
to  thy  obedience. 

11  My  commiflion  indeed  is  to  make  a  war  upon 
Diabolus  thy  king,  and  upon  all  Diabolonians  with 
him  ;  for  he  is  the  ftrong  man  armed  that   keeps 
the  houfe,  and  I  will  have  him  out  ;  his    fp6iJ 
muft  divide,  his  armour  I  mult  take  from  him,  his. 
hold  I  mull  call  him  out  of,  and  muft  make   it    an 
habitation  for  myfelf.     And  this,  G  manfoul, .mall! 
Diabolus  know,  when  he  fhall  be  made  to   fo].\ 
me  in  chains, and  manfoul  fhall  rejoice  to  fee  it  fo* 

'*  I  could,  would  I  now   put    forth    my  nv.g 
caufe  that  forthwith  he  mould  leave  you  and    de- 
part ;  but  I  have  it  in  my  heart   fo  prj  -vith  ' 
him,  as  that  the  juftice  of  the  war  that  Lih'al!  rtj 
upon  him  may  be  feen  and  acknowledged  by   all. 
He  hath  taken  maftfoul  by  fraud,  v.nd  keeps  it  by 
violence  and  deceit;  and  I  will  makehirnb 
I? 


io2  The    HOLY    WAR. 

naked  in  the  eyes  of  all  obfervers.  Allmy  words 
are  true  ;  I  am  mighty  to  fave,  and  willdeliver  my 
manfoul  out  of  his  hand." 

This  fpeech  was  intended  chiefly  for  manfoul, 
but  manfoul  would  not  have  the  hearing  of  it. 
They  fliut  up  Ear-gate,  they  barricadoedit  up,  they 
kept  it  locked  and  bolted,  they  fet  a  guard  there- 
at, and  commanded  that  no  manfoulonian  iliould 
go  out  to  him,  nor  that  any  from  the  camp  mould 
be  admitted  into  the  Town.  All  this  they  did,  fo 
horribly  had  Diabolus  inchanted  them  to  do,  and 
feek  to  do  for  him,  againit  their  rightful  Lord  and 
Prince  ;  wherefore  no  man,  nor  voice,  nor  found 
of  man,  that  belonged  to  the  glorious  holt,  was  to 
come  into  the  Town. 

So,   when   Emmanuel   faw   that  manfoul   was 

Emmanuel  thus  involved  in  fin,  he  calls  his    army 

prepares  to  together    (fince  now    alfo    his   words 

■make  war    were  defpifedj   and  gave   out   a   com- 

■  upon  Man-  mandment  throughout  all  his  holts  to 

-'Jlu/.  be  ready  againll  the   time   appointed. 

;;Now,  forafmuch  as  there  was  no  way  lawfully  to 

^takethc^own  of  manfoul  but   to  get   in   by   the 

fjgajes,  and  at  Ear-gate  as  the  chief ;  therefore  he 

-.''commanded    his    captains    and    commanders    to 

^faring  their  rams,  their  flings,  and.  their  men,    and 

'place  them,  at  Eye-gate  and  Ear-gate,  in  order  to 

taking  the  Town. 

When  Emmanuel  had  put  all  things  in  a  readi- 

ib'oius      nefs  to bidDiabo!usbattle,hefent again 

\-fciidsly  his   to    know    of  the  town    of    manfoul 

:  ant  Mr.  if,  in  a  peaceable  manner,  they  would 

| 'Loth  to-        yield  themfelves;  or  whether  they  were- 

.    p9  and     yet  rcfoived  to  put  him  to  try  the  "u't- 

'  by  him  he    mod  extremity.     Tlicy  then,  ro^et ; 

wrofounds     with    Diabolus    their  king,    calle. 

traditions    council    of  war,   and  refolved  u\ 


The    HOLY    WAR,  103 

of  peace,  certain^  propofitions  that  fhould  be 
offered  to  Emmanuel,  if  he  will  accept  thereof;  fo 
they  agreed.  And  then  the  next  was, who  mould 
be  fent  on  this  errand  ?  Now, there  was  in  the 
town  of  manfoul  an  old  man, a  DiaboIonian,and  his 
name  was  Mr.Loth-to-ftoup,a  (tiifmanin  his  way, 
and  a  great  doerforDiabolus  ;  him,therefore,they 
fent,  and  put  into  his  mouth  what  he  mould  fay  : 
fo  he  went,  and  came  to  the  camp  to  Emmanuel  ; 
and,  when  he  was  come,  a  time  was  appointed  to 
give  him  audience.  So  at  the  time  he  came  ;  and, 
after  a  Diabolonian  ceremony  or  two,  he  thus  be- 
_-.    .         gan  and  laid,    "Great  Sir,   that   it   may 

1  "  ul  '  be  known  unto  all  men  how  good-natu- 
red a  prince  my  matter  is,  he  hath  fent  me  to  tell 
your  Lordmip,  that  he  is  very  willing,  rather  than 
to  go  to  war,  to  deliver  up  into  your  hands  one 
M  y  ,.  half  of  the  town  of  manfoul  :  I  am, 
therefore,to  know  if  your  Mightinefs 
will  accept  of  this  proportion/ 

Then  faid  Emmanuel, "The  whole  is  mine  by  gift 
and  purchafe,  wherefore  I  will  never  lofe  onehalf." 

Then  faid  Mr.  Loth-to-ttoop,  "Sir,  my  matter 
Mark  this,  hath  faid  that  he  will  be  content 
Luke  xnu  that  you  mail  be  the  nominal  titular 
29.  Lord  of  all,  if  he  may  poffefsbut  a  par: 

Then  Emmanuel  anfwered,"The  whole  is  mrr 
really,  not  in  name  and  word  only  ;   wherefore  A 
will  be  the  fole  Lord  and  Poffeflbr   of  -A),    or   of 
none  at  all,  of  manfoul." 

Then  Mr.  Loth-to-ttoop  faid  again,  "Sir  behold- 
l  Mark  this,  the  condefcenfion  of  my  matter  !  He- 
Atts  v,  i,  fays,  that  he  will  be  content  if  he  may 
— 5.  but  have  affigned  to  him  fome  place  \vk 

manfoul  as  a  place  to  live  privately   in,    and   you 
mail  be  Lord  of  all  the  rett." 

Then  faid  the  Golden  Prince,  "All that  the>Fa- 


io4  The   HOLY    WAR. 

ther  giveth  me  fhall  come  to  me  ;  and  of  all  that 
he  hath  given  me  I  will  lofe  nothing,  no  not  a 
hoof  nor  a  hair  :  I  will  not  therefore  grant  him, 
no  not  the  ieaft  corner  in  manfoul  to  dwell  in  ;  I 
will  have  all  to  myfelf." 

Then  Loth-to-ftoop  faid  again,  "But,  Sir,   fup- 
x/t    i  *rr    P0^  tnat   my  lord  mould  refign   the 

IVltirfc   tut  5,  •       i       nr  i  -it- 

whole  Town  to  you,  only  with    this 

privifo,  that  he  fometimes,  when    he  comes  into 

this  country,  may,  for  old  acquaintance*  fake,  be 

entertained  as  a  wayfaring  man  for   two  days,  or 

ten  days,  or  a  month,  or  fo  ;  may  not   this   fmall 

muter  be  granted  ?" 

Then  faid  Emmanuel,  "No  ;  he  came  as  a  way- 

c  ..     faring  man  to  David,  nor  did  he  ftay 

2  Sam.  xu.    ,  •.,•  j         •    .    j  n 

_  long  with  him,  and  yet  it  had  like  to 

1     *"  have  coil  David  his  foul.     I  will  not 

confent  that  he  ever  mould   have  any  harbour 

more  there/' 

Then  faid  Mr.  Loth-to-ftoop,  "Sir,   you  feem 

to  be  very  hard.     Suppofemy  mailer  mould  yield 

to  all  that  your  Lordfhip  hath  faid,  provided  that 

c.  j  his  friends  and  kindred  in  manfoul 
o//7  ana  car-         ,        ...  ,    .      , 

,  ,  a  mav  have  liberty  to  trade  in  the  town, 

■na I  lulls,  i  .        f  .  r       %      ,,. 

J  and  to  enjoy  their  prelent dwellings; 

may  not  that  be  granted,  Sir  ?" 

Then  faid  Emmanuel,  "No  ;  that  is  contrary 
Rom.  vi.  to  my  Father's  will  :  for  all,  and  all  man 
ij.  Col,  ner  of  Diaboloniansthat  now  are,  or  that 
iii.  5.  at  any  time  mall  be  found  in  manfoul, 
G&I.V.24.  mall  not  only  lofe  their  lands  and  liber- 
ties, but  alfo  their  lives." 

Then  faid  Mr.  Loth-to-ftoop  again,    "But,  Sir, 

Markthis.™y  no:  "?y  ™fter  and  great  lord, 
*7  I  8  y  letters,  by  paflengers,  by  acciden- 
•'  '  tal  opportunities,  and   the  like,  main- 

tain, if  he  lhall   deliver  up  all  unto  thee^  fume 


The    HOLY    WAR.  loy 

kind  of  old  friendihip  with  manfoul." 

Emmanuel  anfwered,  "No,  by  no  means  ;  for- 
afmuch  as  any  fuch  fellow lhip,  friendfiiip,  intima- 
cy, or  acquaintance,  in  what  way,  fort,  or  mode 
foever  maintained,  will  rend  to  the  corrupting  of 
manfoul,  the  alienating  of  their  affections  from 
me,  and  the  endangering  of  their  peace  with  my 
Father." 

Mr.  Loth-to-ftoop  yet  added  further,  faying, 
Mark  this  u  But,  great  Sir,  flnce  my  matter 
Rim.  vi.12,  hath  many  friends,  and  thofe  that  arc 
ig.  dear  to  him  in  manfoul  ;  may  he  not, 

if  he  fhall  depart  from  them,  even  of  his  bounty 
and  good-nature  bellow  upon  them,  as  he  fees  fir, 
fome  tokens  of  his  love  and  kindnefs/that  he  had 
for  them,  to  the  end  that  manfoul,  \vhen  he  is 
gone,  may  look  upon  fuch  tokens  of  kindnefs  once 
received  from  their  old  friend,  and  remember  him 
who  was  once  their  king,  and  the  merry  times 
that  they  fometimes  enjoyed  one  with  ano-» 
ther,  while  he  and  they  lived  in  peace  toge- 
ther ?" 

Then  faid  Emmanuel,  u  No  ;  for  if  manfoul 
come  to  be  mine,  I  fhall  not  admit  of  nor  confent 
that  there  mould  be  the  leaft  fcrap,  fhred,  or  dud/ 
of  Diabolus  left  behind,  as  tokensor  gifts  beltow- 
ed  upon  any  in  manfoul,  thereby  to  call  to  re-, 
membrance  the  horrible  communion  that  was  be-> 
twixt  them  and  him. 

"  Well  Sir,"  faid  Mr.  Loth-to-ftoop,  "  I  have 
one  thing  more  to  propound,  and  then  I  am  got 
to  the  end  of  my  commiflion  :  Suppofe  that, 
when  my  mafler  is  gone  from  manfoul,  any  that 
Mark  this,  yet  fhall  live  in  the  town  mould 
2  Kings  i,3,  have  fuch  bufinefs  of  high  concerns 
6,  7-  to  do,  that,  if  they  be  neglected,  the 

parties  fhall  be  undone  ;  and  fuppofe,  Sir,  that  no 


io6  The    HOLY  WAR. 

bjdy  can  help  in  thar  cafe  fo  well  as  my  maf- 
ter  and  lord,  may  not  now  my  mailer  be  fent  for 
upon  fo  urgent  an  occafion  as  this  ?  Or,  if  he  may 
not  be  admitted  into  the  Town,  may  not  he  and 
the  perfon  concerned  meet  in  lome  of  the  vil- 
lages near  manfoul,  and  there  lay  their  heads  to- 
gether, and  there  confult  of  matters." 

This  was  the  laft  of  thefe  enfnaring  propor- 
tions that  Mr.  Loth-to-itoop  had  to  propound  to 
Emmanuel  on  behalf  of  his  mailer  Diabolus  y  but 
Emmanuel  would  not  grant  it  :  "  For,"  he  faid, 
"  there  can  be  no  cafe,  or  thing,  or  matter,  fall  out  in 

1  Sam.  xviii.  manfoul  when  thy  mafterfhall  be  gone, 
15.  that  may  not  befolvedby  my  Father. 
Befides,  it  will  be  a  great  difparagement  to  my  Fa- 

2  Kings  i.  2,  trier's  wifdom  and  fkill  to  admit  any 
3.  from  manfoul  to  go  out  to  Diabolus 
for  advice,  when  they  are  bid  before,  in  every  thing 
by  prayer  and  Amplication  to  let  their  requefts  be 
made  known  to  my  Father.  Further,  this,  mould 
it  be  granted,  would  be  to  grant  that  a  door  mould 
be  fet  open  for  Diabolus,  and  the  Diabolonians, 
in  manfoul,  to  hatch,  and  plot,  and  bring  to  pafs, 
treafonable  defigns,  to  the  grief  of  my  Father  and 
me,  and  to  the  utter  deftruclion  of  manfoul." 

When  Mr.  Loth-to-ltoop  had  heard  this  anfwer 
.''  Lot/j-to-  he  took  his  leave  of  Emmanuel,  and 
(loop  de-  departed,  faying,  That  he  would  do 
.farts.  word  to  his  mailer  concerning  this 
whole  aifair.  So  he  departed  and  came  to  Diabo- 
lus to  manfoul,  and  told  him  the  whole  of  the 
matter,  and  how  Emmanuel  would  not  admit,  no 
not  by  any  means,  that  he,  when  he  was  once 
gone  out,  fhould  for  ever  have  any  thing  more  to 
do,  either  in  or  with  any  that  are  of  the  town 
of  manfoul.  When  manfoul  and  Diabolus  had 
heard  this  relation  of  things,  they,  with  one  con- 


The   HOLY    WAR.  i  or 

fent,concluded  to  ufe  their  be  ft  endeavour  to  keep 
Emmanuel  out  of  manfoul,  and  fent  old  Ul-paufe, 
of  whom  you  have  heard  before,  to  tell  the  Prince 
and  his  captains  lb.  So  the  old  gentleman  came 
up  to  the  top  of  Ear-gate,  and  called  to  the  camp 
for  a  hearing  :  who,  when  they  gave  audience,he 
faid,  "I  have  in  commandment  from  my  high 
A  fpeecb  o/lord  to  bid  you  to  tell  it  to  your 
old  III"  Prince  Emmanuel,  that   manfoul   and 

paufe  to  the  their  king  are  refolved  to  Hand  and 
camp.  fall  together,  and  that  it  is  in  vain  for 

your  Prince  to  think  of  ever  having  of  manfoul  iri 
his  hand  unlefs  he  can  take  it  by  force."  So  fome 
went  and  told  to  Emmanuel  what  old  Ill-paufe, 
a  Diabolonian  in  manfoul,  had  faid.  Then  faid 
the  Prince,  I  muft  try  the  power  of  my  fword  ; 
EpL  vi.  17.  for  I  will  not  (for  all  the  rebellions 
They  muft  and  repulfes  that  manfoul  has  made 
fight.  againft  me)  raife  my  fiege  and  depart* 

but  will  affu redly  take  my  manfoul,  and  deliver 
it  from  the  hand  of  her  enemy.  And  with  that  he 
Prepare-  gave  out  a  commandment,  that  Cap- 
tions  to  the  tain  Boanerges,  Captain  Conviction^ 
battle.  Captain  Judgment,  and  Captain  Ex- 

ecution, mould  forthwith  march  up  to  Ear-gate, 
with  trumpets  founding,  colours  flying,  and  with 
iliouting  for  the  battle.  Alfo  he  would  that  Cap- 
tain Credence fhouldjoin  himfelf  with  them.  Em- 
manuel, moreover,  gave  order,  that  Captain  Gtod- 
hope  and  Captain  Charity  fhould  draw  themftlves 
up  before  Eye-gate.  He  bid  alfo,  that  the  reft  if 
his  captains  and  their  men  mould  place  thcmfelves 
for  the  heft  of  their  advantage  againft  the  enemy 
round  about  the  Town.  And  all  was  done  as  he 
had  commanded.  Then  he  bid  that  the  word 
fhould  be  given  forth  ;  and  the  word  was  at  thai 
time,  Emmanuel.     Then    was  an   alarm  founded,' 


108  The  HOLY    WAR. 

and  the  battering-rams  were  played,  and  the  flings 
did  whirl  itones  huo  the  Town  amain  ;  and  thus 
the  battle  began.  Now,  Diabolus  himfclf  did 
manage  the  townfmen  in  the  war,  and  that  at 
every  gate  :  wherefore  their  refinance  was  the 
more  forcible,  helifh,  and  offenfive  to  Emmanuel. 

Thus  was  the  good  Prince  engaged  and  enter- 
tained by  Diabolus  and  manfoul  for  feveral  days 
together.  And  a  fight  worth  feeing  it  was,  to  be- 
hold how  the  captains  of  Shaddai  behaved  them- 
felves  in  this  war. 

And,  firil,  for  Captain  Boanerges  (not  to  under- 
Boanerges  value  the  reft)  he  made  three  moll  fierce 
flays  the  aflaults,  one  after  another,  upon  Ear- 
man.  gate»  t0  rhe  making  of  the  polls  there- 

of. Captain  Conviction,  he  alfo  made  up  as  fail 
with  Boanerges  as  poffibly  he  could  ;  and  both 
difcerning  that  the  gate  began  to  yield,  rhey  com- 
manded that  the  rams  mould  Hill  be  played  againfl 
■        .^.        it.     Now  Captain  Conviction,  going 

Vij  1P     up  very  near  to  the  gate,  was  with 

great  force  driven  back,  and  received 

three  wounds  in  the  mouth.     And  thofe  that  rode 

A      ,       reformadoes,  they  went  about  to  encou- 

s  rage  the  captains. 

For  the  valour  of  trie  two  captainsmade  mention 
cf  before,  the  Prince  fent  for  them  to  his  pavi- 
lion, and  commanded  that  a  while  they  mould  reft 
themfelves,  and  that  with  fomewhat  they  ihould 
be  refrefhed.  Care  alfo  was  taken  for  Captain 
Conviction, that  he  ihould  be  healed  of  his  wounds; 
the  Prince  alfo  gave  to  each  of  them  a  chain  of 
gold,  and  bid  them  yet  be  of  good  courage. 

Nor  did  Captain  Good-hope  nor  Captain  Cha- 
Good-bope  rity  come  behind  in  this  moil  defpe- 
anaCharityxzxz  fi^ht  ;  for  they  (o  well  did  behave 
flay  the    themfelves  at  Eye-gate,  that  they,  had 


The    HOLY    WAR.  109 

men  at  Eye-  almoit  broke  it  quite  open.    Thefe  alfo 
gate.  had  a  reward  from  their  Prince,  as  alfo 

had  the  reft  of  the  captains,  becaufe  they  did   va- 
liantly round  about  the  Town. 

In  this  engagement  feveral  of  the  officers  of  Dia- 
boluswereflain,  andfomeof  thetownfmen  wound^ 
~  .  ed.  For  of  the  officers  there  was  one 
^Vn  Captain  Boaiting  flain.  This  Boaft- 
ooajttng  ^  bought  that  no  body  could  have 
J  anu  .  fhake.1  the  pofts  of  Ear-gate,  nor  have 
fhaken  the  heart  of  Diabolus.  Next  to  him  there 
r  +*  '    c     was  one  Captain  Secure  flain  ;  this 

clre/ks Secure   ufed   tofay»   That    the   bIind 
re j  atn.    ^^  ja^e   -n   manfoul   were  able   to 

0  *    keep  the  gates  of  the  Town   againft 

'  Emmanuel's    army.        This    Captain 

Secure  did  Captain   Conviction  cleave  down  the 

head  with  a  two  Jianded  fword,  when  he  received 

himfelf  three  wounds  in  his  mouth. 

Befides  thefe,  there  was  one  Captain  B  ragman, 
a  very  defperate  fellow,  and  he  was  captain  over  . 
Captain  a  band  of  thofe  that  threw  firebrands, 
Bragman  arrows,  and  death  ;  he  alfo  received, 
Jlain,  by  the  hand  of  Captain  Good-hope  at 
Eye-gate,  a  mortal  wound  in  the  bread. 

There  was,  moreover,  one  Mr.  Feeling,  but  he' 
was  no  captain,  but  a  great  ftickler  to  encourage 
Mr.  Feeling  manfoul  to  rebellion  ;  he  received  a 
hurt.  wound  in  the  eye  by  the  handof  one 

of  Boanerges'   foldiers,  and   had  by   the  captairt... 
himfelf  been  flain,  but  that  he  made  a  fudden-  re- 
treat. 

But  I  never  law  Willbewill  fo   daunted   in  all/ - 
JVillbewill    my  life,  he  was  not  able  to  do  what 
hurt.  he  was  wont  ;    and  fome  fay  that  he 

alio  received  a  wound  in    the  leg,  and  that  fmie 
of  the  men   in  the    Prince's  army  have  ceitainly 
K 


iio  The    HOLY    WAR. 

ieen  him  limp  as  he  afterwards  walked  on  the  wail. 

I  mail  not  give  you  a  particular  account  of  the 

Many  of  the  names  of  the  foldiers  that  were  flain 

Uers  in     in  the  Town,  for  many  were  maimed 

ful        and  wounded,   and  flain  :    for  when 

they  fawthat  the   poits   of  Ear-gate 

did  ihake,  and  Eye-gate   was   well  nigh    broken 

quite  open,  and  alio  that  their  captains  wTere  ilain, 

this  took  the  hearts  of  many  of  the  Diabo- 

lonians  ;   they  fell  alio  by  the  force  of  the  (hot  that 

were  lent  by  the  golden  flings  into   the  midft   of 

the  town  of  manfoul. 

Of  the  townfmen  there  was  one  Love-no-good, 

Lave-no-      he  was    a   townfman,   but   a  DiabJo- 

nian    ;     he   alfo   received   his    mortal 

Jed.    wound   in   manfoul,    but   he  died  not 

very  foon. 

Mr.  Ill-paufe  alfo,  who  was  the  man  that  came 
along  with  Diabolus  when  at    firft   he  attempted 
aufe      the  taking  of  manfoul,  he  alfo  received 
.    a  grievous   wound    in  the   head,  fome 
his  brain-pan  was   crackt  ;     this  I  have 
:-n  notice  of,  that    he  was   never* after  this  a- 
:o  do  that  mifchief  to  manfoul  as  he  had  done 
pad.     Alfo  old  Prejudice  and  Mr.  Any- 
led. 

battle  was    over,   the  Prince 
:ommanded   that   yet  once  more  the 
7     white  flag  mould  be   let  upon  Mount 
Gracious,  in  the   light  of  the  town  of 
to   mew   that   yet  Emmanuel  had  grace 
he  wretched  town  of  manfoul. 
/hen  Diabolus  faw  the  white  flag  hanged  out 
•id  knowing  that  it  was  not   for  him  but 
manfoul,    he  call  in  his  mind  to  play 
another  prank,  to  wir,  to  fee  if  I 
C  his  flcge,  and  be  g 


The    HOLY   WAR.  in 

mife  of  a  reformation.     So  he  comes  down  to  the 
gate  one  evening,a  good  while  after  fan  was  gone 
down,  and  calls  to  fpeak   with  Emmanuel,    who 
prefenily  came  down  to  the  gate  ;  and  Diabolus  - 
faith  unto  him, 

"Forafmuch  as  thou  makeft   it   appear   by    thy 
jj.    r       ,    white  flag, that" thou; art  wholly  giveri 

ls  J?e^Cl}    to  peace  and  quiet,  I  thought  meet  to 
0    I"  acquaint  thee,  that    we   are  ready  to 

accept  thereof  upon  terms  whi 
may  eft  admit. 

€il  know  that  thou  art  given  to  devotion 
that  hoiinefs  pleafes  thee  ;  yea,  that  thy  great  . 
in  making  a  warupon  manibul  is, that  it  may  fre 
holy  habitation.     Wei!,  draw  ofT  thy  forces  fee 
the  Town,  and  I  will  bend  manibul  to  thy  bo v 

"Firft,I  will  lay  down  all  ads  of  hostility  again 
Diabolus     thee,  and  will    be    willing   to   becoi 
would  be     thy  deputy,  and  will,  as  I  hv 
Emmanu-    \y  been  again  ft  thee,  ncv 
ef*s  deputy,  the  town  of  manioah     And  more 
&c.  ricularly, 

(i  1. 'I  will  perfuade  mar-foul  to  receive  tr    1 
their  Lord  ;  and  I  know  that  they  will  do 
fooner,  when  they  ihall  underftand  that  I 
deputy, 

"2.  I  will  fhew  them  wherein  they  have 
and  that  tranfgreffion  ftands  in  the  way  to 

"3.  I  will  fnew  them  the  holy  law  unco  which  • 
they  muft  conform,  even  that    which    they   ha    ; 
broken. 

u  4.  I  will  prefs  upon  them    the  neceility  of  a 
reformation  according  to  thy  law. 

"5.  And,  moreover,  that  none  of  thefe    things 
may  fail,  I  myfelf,  at   my   own   proper   coft    and 
charge,  will  fet  up  and  maintain  a  furficient    mini-  * 
ftry,  Wides  lectures,  in  manfoul. 
K  2 


H*  The   HOLY   WAR. 

"6.  Thou  fhalt  receive,  as  a  token  of  our  fub- 
jedtion  10  thee,  continually,  year  by  year,  what 
thou  fhalt  think  fit  to  lay  and  levy  upon  us,  in 
token  of  our  fubje&ion  to  thee." 

Then  faid  Emmanuel  to  him,  "O  full  of  deceit, 
The  <7//-how  moveable  are  thy  ways  i  how  often 
fiver,  haft  how  changed  and  rechanged,  if  fo  be 
thou  mighteft  ftill  keep  poffeffion  of  my  manfoul, 
though,  as  has  been  plainly  declared  before,  I  am 
the  right  heir  thereof  ?  Often  haft  thou  made 
thy  propofals  already,  nor  is  this  laft  a  whit  bet- 
ter than  they.  And,  failing  to  deceive  when 
thou  fhewedft  thyfelf  in  thy  black,  thou  haft  now 
transformed  thyfelf  into  an  angel  of  light,  and 
2  Cor.  xi.  wouldft,  to  deceive,  be  now  as  a  mini- 
14.  Iter  of  righteoufnefs. 

"But  know  now,  O  Diabolus,  that  nothing 
muft  be  regarded  that  thou  canft  propound,  for 
nothing  is  done  by  thee  but  to  deceive  ;  thounei- 
Diaholus  ther  haft  conscience  to  God,  nor  love 
has  no  con-to  the  town  of  manfoul  :  whence,then, 
fcience  to  fhould  thefe  thy  fayings  arife  but  from 
God,  nor  finful  craft  and  deceit  ?  He  that  can  oft 
love  to  lift  and  will  propound  what  he  pleafes, 
Manfoul,  and  that  wherewith  he  may  deftroy 
"  them  that  believe  him,  is  to  be  abandoned  with 
all  that  he  fhall  fay.  But,  if  righteoufnefs  be 
fuch  a  beauty-fpot  in  thine  eyes  now,  how  is  it 
that  wickednefs  was  fo  clofely  ftuck  to  by  thee 
/before  ?  But  this  is  by  the  by. 

"Thou  talked  now  of  a  reformation  in  manfoul, 
and  that  thou  thyfelf,if  I  willpleafe,will  be  at  the 
head  of  that  reformation  ;  all  the  while  knowing, 
He- knows  that  the  greateft  proficiency  that  man 
what  he  can  make  in  the  law,  and  the,  righteouf- 
fropounds  nefs  thereof,  will  amount  to  no  more 
for  health  for  the  taking  away  of  the  curfe  from 


i 


The    HOLY    WAR,  113 

ofmanfoulnmx\(ou\,  than  j lift  nothing  at  all:  for 
ivi II do  no  a  law  being  broken  by  manfoul,  that 
good.  had  before,  upon  a   fuppofition   of  the 

breach  thereof,  a  curfe  pronounced  againft  him 
for  it  of  God,  can  never,  by  his  obeying  of  the 
law,  deliver  himfelf  therefrom  (to  fay  nothing  of 
what  a  reformation  is  like  tobefet  up  in  manfoul, 
when  the  devil  is  become  the  corrector  of  vice.) 
Thou  knowett  that  all  that  thou  halt  now  faid  in 
this  matter  is  nothing  but  guile  and  deceit  ;  and 
as  it  was  the  firft,  fo  is  it  the  laft,  card  that  thou 
haft  to  play.  Many  there  be  that  do  foon  difcern 
thee  when  thou  fheweft  them  thy  cloven  foot  ; 
but  in  thy  white,  thy  light,  and  in  thy  transfor- 
mation, thou  art  feen  but  of  a  few,  But  thou 
malt  not  do  thus  with  my  manfoul,  O  Diabolus, 
for  I  do  it  ill  love  my  manfoul. 

"Befides,  I  am  not  come  to  put  manfoul  upon 
works  to  live  thereby  (mould  I  do  (of  I  mould  be 
like  unto  thee)  but  I  am  come,  that  by  me,  and- 
by  what  I  have  and  ihall  do  for  manfoul,  they 
may  to  my  Father  be  reconciled,  though  by  theis 
fin  they  have  provoked  him  to  anger,  and  though 
by  the  law  they  cannot  obtain  mercy. 

"Thou  talkeft  of  fubjecling  of  this   Town    to 
good,  when  none  defireth  it  at  thy   hand?.     I  am, 
All  things     fent  by  my  Father  to  pofTefs  it  my  fell) 
muft  be  new  and  to  guide  it  by   the  fkilfulnefs    of 
in  manfoul    my  hands,  into  fuch  a  conformity   to 
him  as  fhali  be  pleafing  in  his  fight.     I  will  there- 
fore pofTefs  it  myfelf,!  will  difpoilefs  and  call  thee 
out  ;  I  will  {q.i  up  mine  own  fiandard  in  the  mi 
or  them  ;  I  will  alio  govern  them  by    new    la: 
new  officers,  new  motives,  and   new    ways  :  y 
I  will  pull  down  this  town,  and   build    it    again  ; 
and  it  (hall  be  as  though  it  had  not    been,   and    it 
mail  then  be  the  glory  of  the  whole  univerfe.*' 
K  3 


rif  The   HOLY  WAR. 

When  Diabolus  heard  this,  and  perceived  that 

ts-  r  ,      he  was  difcovered  in  all  his  deceits,   he 
Diabolus  c        i    »        j  i 

r  j  was  confounded,  and  utterly  put  to  a 
conjoin  -  nonp]us  .  but  having  in  himfelf  the 
fountain  of  iniquity,  rage,  and  malice, 
againft  both  Shaddai  and  his  Son,  and  the  beloved 
town  of  manfoul,  what  doth  he  but  itrengthen 
himfelf  what  he  could  to  give  frelh  battle  to  the 
noble  Prince  Emmanuel  \  So  then,  now  we  mull 
have  another  fight  before  the  town  of  manfoul  is 
taken.  Come  up  then  to  the  mountains,  you  that 
love  to  fee  military  adlions,  and  behold,  by  both 
fides,  how  the  fatal  blow  is  given  ;  while  one 
feeks  to  hold,  and  the  other  feeks  to  make  himfelf 
matter  of,  the  famous  town  of , manfoul. 

Diabolus,  therefore,  having  withdrawn  himfelf 
•pr  m  form  the  wall  to  his  force    that    was 

f  in  the  heart  of  the  town  of  manfoul, 

Yd?j&  Haht  Emmanuel  a^°  returned  to  thecamp; 
4.  "  P&'  '  and  both  of  them,  after  their  diverfe 
ways  put  thcmfelves  in  a  poilure  fit  to  bid  battle 
one  to  another. 

Diabolus,  as  filled  with  defpair  of  retaining  in 
Diabolus  his  hands  the  famous  town  of  man- 
d&fpairs  of  foul,  refolved  to  do  what  mifchief  he 
holding  of  could  (if  indeed  he  could  do  any  to 
pfanfou/y  the  army  of  the  Prince,  and  to  the 
and  there-  famous  town  of  manfoul  ;  for,  alas  ! 
fore  con-  it  was  not  the  happinefs  of  the  filly 
trives  to  do  town  of  manfoul  that  was  dcfigned  by 
it  mifckiefDhbolus,  but  the  utter  ruin  and  over- 
throw thereof)  as  now  is  enough  in  view. 
Wherefore  he  commands  his  officers,  that  they 
ihould  then,  when  they  fee  that  they  coul.d  hold 
.  the  T  myh  no  longer,  do  it  what  harm  and  mif- 
MarL  :x.  chief  they  could,  rending  and  tear- 
20,  so.     ing  of  men,    women    and    children    ; 


The    HOLY    WAR.  uy 

u  for,"  faid  he,  "  we  had  better  quite  demoliili 
the  place,  and  leave  it  like  a  ruinous  heap,  than 
to  leave  it  that  it  may  be  an  habitation  for  Em- 
manuel." 

Emmanuel  again,  knowing  that  the  next  battle 
would  iiTue  in  his  being  made  mafter  of  the  place, 
gave  out  a  royal  commandment  to  all  his  officers, 
high  captains,  afcd  men  of  war,  to  be  fure  to  ihew 
themfelves  men  of  war  againit  Diabolus,  and  all 
Diabolonians  ;  but  favourable,  merciful,  and  meek, 
to  all  theold  inhabitants  of  manfouJ.  Bend,  there- 
fore, faid  the  noble  Prince,  the  hotteft  front  of 
the  battle  again  (I  Diabolus  and  his  men. 

So  the  dfly  being  come,  the  command  wasgiven, 
The  battle  and  the  Prince's  men  did  bravely  ihnd 
joined^  and  to  their  arms  ;  and  did,  as  before, 
they  fight  bend  their  main  force  againft  Ear-gate 
on  both  and  Eye-gate.      The  word  was  then, 

fides  fierce-  manfoui  is  won  ;  fo  they  made  Jheir 
ly.  aiTaultupontheTown.  Diabolus  alfo,  as 

fait  as  he  could,  with  the  main  of  his  power  made 
refiftance  from  within  ;  and  his  high  lords  and 
chief  captains,  for  a  time,  fought  very  cruelly  a- 
gainll:  the  Prince's  army. 

But  after  three  or  four  notable  charges  by  the 
Ear-gate  Prince  and  his  noble  captains,Ear-gate 
broke  open,  was  broken  open,  and  the  bars  and 
bolts,  wherewith  it  was  ufed  to  be  fail  fhut  up  a- 
gainft  the  Prince,  were  broken  into  a  thoufand 
pieces.  Then  did  the  Prince's  trumpets  found, the 
captains  fhout,  the  Town  (hake,  and  Diabolus  rer 
treat  to  his  hold.  Well,  when  the  Prince's  forces  had 
broken  open  the  gate,  himfelf  came  up  and  dill  fee 
his  throne  in  it  ;  alfo  he  fet  his  flandard  thereby 
The  Prince's  upon  amount,  that  before  by  hisfaeii 
Jlandard  fet  was  call  up  to  place  the  mighty  flings 
uj>,  and  the     thereon.  The  mount  wascallcdMount 


n6  The  HOLY  WAR. 

flings  are  Hear-well  ;  there, therefore, the  Prince 
played  fill  abode,  to  wit,  hard  by  the  going  in  at 
atthecaflc.  the  gate.  He  commanded  alfo,  that 
the  golden  flings  mould  yet  be  played  upon  the 
Town,  efpecially  againft  the  Cattle,  bccaufe  fur 
{he Iter  thither  was  Diabolus  retreated.  Now, from 
Ear-gate  the  ltreet  was  ltraight  even  to  the  houfe 
of  Mr.  Recorder,that  fo  was, before  Diabolus  took, 
the  Town  ;  and  hard  by  his  houfe  itood  the  Caltle, 
which  Diabolus  for  a  long  time  had  made  his  irk- 
fomeden.  The captains,therefore,did quickly  clear 
that  ltreet  by  the  ufe  of  their  flings,  lb  that  way 
was  made  up  to  the  heart  of  the  Town.  Then 
did  the  Prince  command  that  Capt.  Boanerges, 
Capt.Convicl:ion,and  Capt.  Judgment, ihould  forth- 
Conference,  with  march  up  the  town  to  the  old  gen- 
tleman's gate.  Then  did  thecaptains,  in  molt  war- 
like manner,  enter  into  the  town  of  man  foul,  and 
They  go  up  marching  in  with  flying  colours,  they 
to  the  Re-  came  up  to  the  Recorder's  houfe  (and 
corder's  that  was  almoft  as  ftrong  as  was  the 
houfe*  Caftle.)  Battering-rams  they  took  alfo 

with  them  to  plant  againft  the  Caitle-gates.  When 
they  were  come  to  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Confcience, 
They  de~  they  knocked  and  demanded  entrance. 
mand  en-  Now,  the  old  gentleman,  not  knowing 
trance.  as  yet  fully  their  deflgn,  kept  his  gates 
■fhut  all  the  time  of  this  fight.  Wherefore  Boa- 
nerges demanded  entrance  at  his  gates  ;  and,  no 
man  makine  anfwer.he  save  it  oneitroke  with  the 
head  of  a  ram,  and  this  made  the  old  gentleman 
fhake,  and  his  houfe  to  tremble  and  totter.  Then 
came  Mr.  Recorder  down  the  gate  ;  and  as  he 
could,with  quivering  lips, he  afked.who  was  there? 
Boanerges  anfwered,  We  are  the  captains  and  cr£\~ 
manders  of  the  great  Shaddai,  and  of  the 
Emmanuel  his  Son  j    and  we  demand  pofTdlic; 


The    HOLY  WAR.  117 

your  houfe  for  the  ufc  of  our  noble  Prince.  And 
with  that  the  battering-ram  gave  the  gate  another 
make.  This  made  the  old  gentleman  tremble  the 
more,  yet  durfthenot  but  open  the  gate.  Then  the 
King's  forces  marched  in,  namely,  the  three  brave 
cpj  .    m   captains  mentioned  before.  Now,the 

^£  '  Recorder's  houfe  was  aplace  of  much 
conveniency  for  Emmanuel, not  only  becaufe  it  was 
near  to  the  Caftle,  and  flrong  ;  but  alfo  becaufe  it 
was  large,  and  fronted  the  Caftle,  the  den  where 
now  Diaboluswas:  for  he  wasnow  afraid  to  come 
out  of  his  hold.  As  for  Mr.  Recorder, the  captains 
They  keep  carried  it  very  refervedly  to  him,  as 
themfehes  yet  he  knew  nothing  of  the  great  de- 
referved  figns  of  Emmanuel  ;  fo  that  he  did 
from  the  not  know  what  judgment  to  make,nor 
Recorder.  what  would  be  the  end  of  fnch  thun- 
dering beginnings.  It  was  alfo  prefently  noifed  in 
the  Town,  how  the  Recorder's  houfe  was  poffef-. 
His  houfe  fcd,his  rooms  taken  up,  and  his  palace 
the  fat  of  made  the  feat  of  thewar ;  and  no  fooner 
war.  was  it  noifed  abroad,but  they  took  the 

alarm  as  warmly,and  gave  it  out  to  others  of  his 
friends  (and  you  know  as  a  fnow-ball  lofes  nothing 
by  rolling  (fo  in  little  time  the  whole  Town  was 
pofTelTed,  that  they  muft  expecl  nothing  from  the 
Prince  but  dcflruclion  ;  and  the  ground  of  the  bu- 
finefs  was  this,The Recorder  was afraid,the Recor- 
der trembled,  and  the  captains  carried  it  ftrangely 
to  the  Recorder  ;  fo  many  came  to  fee  ;  but  when 
they,with  their  own  eyes, did  behold  the  captains 
in  the  palace,  and  their  battering-rams  ever  play- 
ing at  the  caltle-gates  to  beat  them  down,  they 
were  riveted  inthelr  fears,  and  it  made  them  as^n 
The  office  amaze.  And,  as  I  faid,  the  man  of  the 
ofConfci-  houfe  would  increafe  all  this  ;  for 
ence  when   whoever  came   to  him,  or  difcourfed 


nB  The    HGLY    WAR; 

he  is  awak-  with  him,  nothing  would  he  talk  of, 
ened.  tell  them, or  hear,  bat  that  death  and 

deltruclion  now  attended  manfoul. 

"  For,"  quoth  the  old  gentleman,  "  you  are 
all  of  you  fenfible  that  we  all  have  been  traitors 
to  that  once-defpifed,  but  now  famoufly  victorious 
and  glorious,  Prince  Emmanuel  :  for  he  now,  as 
you  fee,  doth  not  only  lye  in  clofe  liege  about  ns, 
but  hath  forced  hisentrancein  at  our  gates  ;  more- 
over, Diabolus  flees  before  him,  and  he  hath,  as 
you  behold,  made  of  my  houfe  a  garrifon  againit 
the  Caftle,  where  he  is.  I,  for  my  part,  have  tran- 
grcfTed  greatly  (and  he  that  is  clean  'tis  well  for 
hirn)  but, I  fay, I  have  tranfgrefled  greatly  in  keep- 
ing of  iilence  when  I  mould  have  fpoken, and  in  per- 
verting of  juflice  when  Iihould  have  executed  the 
fame.  True,  I  have  fuifered  fomething  at  the  hand 
of  Diabolus  for  taking  part  with  the  laws  of  King 
Shaddai  ;  but  that,  2las  !  what  will  that  do  !  Will 
that  make  compenfation  for  the  rebellions  and 
treafons  that  I  have  done,  and  have  fuifered, wi th- 
ou: gainfaying,  to  be  committed  in  the  town  of 
irianfonl  ?  Oh, I  tremble  to  think  what  will  be  the 
end  of  this  fo  dreadful  and  fo  ireful  a  beginning!" 
Now,while  thefe  brave  captains  were  thus  bufy 
in  the  houfe  of  the  old  Recorder,  Captain  Exe- 
cution was  as  bufy  in  the  other  parts  of  the 
The  brave  Town,  in  fecuring  the  back  itreets 
exploits  of  and  the  walls  ;  he  al-fo  hunted  the 
Captain  Lord  Willbewill  forely,  he  fuffered 
Execution,  him  not  to  reft  in  any  corner  ;  he  pur- 
fued  him  fo  hard  that  he  drove  his  men  from  him, 
and  made  him  glad  to  thrult  his  head  into  a  hole. 
Atfo  this  mighty  warriour  did  cut  three  of  the 
Lord  WillbewilTs  officers  down  to  the  ground  : 
Old  Pre ju-  one  was  old  Mr.  Prejudice,  he.  had  his 
dice  /Iain,  crown  crackt  in*  the  mutiny  ;    this 


The    HOLY    WAR.  iij 

man  was  made  by  Lord  Willbewill  keeper  of  Ear- 
gate,  and  fell  by  the  hand  of  Captain  Execution. 
There  was  alio  one  Mr.  Backward-to-all-but 
naught,  and  he  alfo  was  one  of  Lord  WiHbewill's 
officers,  and  was  the  captain  of  the  two  guns  that 
once  were  mounted  on  the  top  of  Ear-gate  ;  he 
Backward-  alfo  was  cut  down  to  the  ground  by 
to-all-but-  the  hands  of  Captain  Execution.  Be- 
naught  'fides  thefe  two,  there  was  another,  a 
Jlain.  third,     and     his     name   was   Captain 

Treacherous  ;  a  vile  man  this  was,  but  one  that 
Treache-  Willbewill  did  put  a  great  deal  of 
rous  Jlain.  confidence  in  ;  but  him  alfo  did  this 
Captain  Execution  cut  down  to  the  ground  with 
the  reft. 

He  alfo  made  a  very  great  flaughter  among  my 
Lord  Willbewill's  foldiers,  killing  many  that  were 
if  out  and  fturdy,  and  wounding  of  many  that  for 
Diabolus  were  nimble  and  active.  But  all  thefe 
were  Diabolonians,  there  was  not  a  man  a  native 
of  manfoul  hurt. 

Other  feats  of  war  were  alfolikewife  performed 
Captain  by  other  of  the  captains,  as  at  Eye- 
Good-hope  gate,  where  Captain  Goodhope  and 
dotbjlay  Captain  Charity  had  a  charge,  was 
Captain  great  execution  done  ;  for  the  Captain 
Blindfold.  Goodhope  with  his  own  hands  flew 
one  Captain  Blindfold,  the  keeper  of  the  gate  ; 
this  Blindfold  was  captain  of  a  thoufand  men,  and 
they  were  they  that  fought  with  mauls  :  he  alfo 
purfned  his  men,  flew  many,  and  wounded  more, 
and  made  the  reft  hide  their  heads  in  corners. 

There  was  alfo  at  the  gate  Mr.Ul-paufe,of  whom 
And  old  you  have  heard  before  ;  he  was  an  old 
Ill-paufe.  man,  and  had  beard  that  reached 
down  to  his  girdle  ;  the  fame  was  he  that  was  ora- 
tor to  Diabolus ;  he  did  much  mifchicf  in  the  town 


120  The   HOLY   WAR. 

of  manfoul,  and  fell  by  the  hand  of  Captain  Good- 
hope. 

What  mail  I  fay  ?  the  Diabolonians  in  thefc 
days  lay  dead  in  every  corner,  though  too  many 
yet  were  alive  in  manfoul. 

Now,  the  old  Recorder  and  my  Lord  Under- 
The  old  {landing,  with  fome  others  of  the  chief 
townfmen  of  the  Town,  to  wit,  fuch  as  knew 
meet  and  they  mufl  Hand  and  fall  with  the  fa- 
confult.  mous  town  of  manfoul,  came  together- 
upon  a  day,  and,after  confultation  had,  did  jointly 
agree  to  draw  up  a  petition, and  to  fend  it  to  Em- 
m-inuel,  now  while  he  fat  in  the  gate  of  manfoul. 
The  Town  So  they  drew  up  their  petition  toEm- 
does peti-  manuel,  the  contents  whereof  were 
tiontandare  thefe  ;  "That  they, the  old  inhabitants 
atifwered  of  the  now  deplorable  town  of  man- 
with  Ji/enceSou],confettcd  their  fin,and  were  forry 
that  they  had  offended  his  princely  Majefty,  and 
prayed  that  he  would  fpare  their  lives." 

Unto  this  petition  he  gave  no  anfwer  at  all,  and 
that  did  trouble  them  yetfo much  the  more.  Now, 
The  caflle-  all  this  while  the  captains  that  were 
gates  broke  in  the  Recorder's  houfe  were  playing 
-open.  with  the  battering-rams   at  the  gates 

of  the  Caftle  to  beat  them  down.  So  after  fome 
time,labour,and  travail,the  gate  of  the  Caille  that 
was  called  Inpregmble  was  beaten  open,  and  bro- 
ken into  feveral  fplinters,and  fo  a  way  made  to  go 
up  to  the  hold  in  which  Diabolus  had  hid  himfelf, 
Then  were  tidings  fent  down  to  Ear-gate  (for  Em- 
manuel flill  abode  there)  to  let  him  know  that  * 
way  was  made  in  at  the  gates  of  the  caftle  of  man- 
foul. But,  oh  !  how  the  trumpets,  at  the  tidings, 
founded  throughout  the  Prince's  camp,  for  that 
now  the  war  was  fo  near  an  end,  and  manfoul  it- 
felf  of  being  fet  free  ! 


The    HOLY   WAR.  121 

Then  the  Prince  arofe  from  rhe  place  where  he 
Emmanuel  was,  and  took  with  him  fuch  of  his 
marches  in-  men  of  war  as  were  fitted:  for  that  ex- 
to  ManfouL  pedition,  and  marched  up  the  ftreet 
of  manfoul  to  the  old  Recorder's  houfe. 

Now,  the  Prince  himfelf  was  clad  all  in  armour 
of  gold,  and  fo  he  marched  up  the  Town  with  his 
ftandard  borne  before  him  ;  but  he  kept  his  counte- 
nance much  referved  all  the  way  as  he  went, fo  that 
the  people  could  not  tell  how  to  gather  to  them- 
felves  love  or  hatred  by  his  looks.  Now,  as  he 
marched  up  the  ftreet,  the  townsfolk  came  out  at 
every  door  to  fee,  and  could  not  but  be  taken  with 
his  perfon,and  the  ^lory  thereof,  but  wondered  at 
the  rcfervednefs  of  his  countenance  ;  for  as  yet  he 
fpake  more  to  them  by  his  actions  and  works  than 
he  did  by  words  or  fmiles.  But,  alas  !  poor  man- 
How  they  foul  (as  in  fuch  cafes  all  are  apt  to  do) 
interpret  they  interpreted  the  carriage  of  Em- 
Emma-  manuel  to  them,  as  did  Jofeph's  bre* 
mte/'s  car- thren  bis  to  them,  even  all  the  quite 
riage.  contrary  way  :  for,  thought  they,  if 
Emmanuel  loved  us,  he  would  fhew  it  to  us  by 
word  or  carriage ;  but  none  of  thefe  he  doth, 
therefore  Emmanuel  hates  us.  Now,  if  Emma^ 
nuel  hates  us,  then  manfoul  fhall  be  ilain  ;  then 
manfoui  fhall  become  a  dunghill.  They  knew  that 
they  had  tranfgreffed  his  Father's  law,  and  that 
againft  him  they  had  been  in  with  Diabolus  his 
enemy :  they  alio  knew  that  the  Prince  Emmanuel 
knew  all  this  ;  for  they  were  convinced  that  he 
was  as  an  angel  of  God,  to  know  all  things  thac 
are  done  in  the  earth.  And  this  made  them  think 
that  their  condition  was  miferable,  and  that  the 
good  Prince  would  make  them  defolate. 

And,  thought  they,  what  time  fo  fit  to  do  this 
in  as  now,  when  he  has  the  bridle  of  manfoul  in 


122  The    HOLY    WAR. 

his  hand:  And  this  I  took  fpecial  notice  of,thatthe 
inhabitants  (notwithstanding  all  this)  could  nor, 
no,  they  could  not,  when  they  faw  him  march 
through  the  Town,  but  cringe,  bow,  bend,  and 
were  ready  to  lick  the  dult  off  his  feet.  They  alio 
vvifhed  a  thoufand  times  over  that  he  would  be- 
come their  prince  and  captain,  and  would  become 
their  protestor.  They  would  alfo  one  to  another 
talk  of  the  comelinefs  of  his  perfon,and  how  much 
for  glory  and  valour  he  ou  tit  ripped  the  great  ones 
of  the  world.  But,  poor  hearts  1  as  to  themfelves 
their  thoughts  would  change,and  go  upon  all  man- 
ner of  extremes.  Yea, thro'  the  working  of  them 
backward  and  forward  manfou!,  became  as  a  ball 
toiled,  and  as  a  rollingthing  before  the  whirlwind. 

Now,  when  he  was  come  to  the  Caitle-gates,he 
He  comes  commanded  Diabolus  to  appear,  and 
?/p  to  the  to  furrender  himfelf  into  his  hands. 
Caflle.and  But,  oh,  how  loath  was  the  beaft  to 
commands  appear  !  how  he  {tuck  at  it  1  how  he 
Diabolus  to  fhrunk  !  ay,  how  he  cringed  !  Yet  out 
furrender,  he  came  to  the  Prince.  Then  Emma- 
nuel commanded,  and  they  took  Diabolus  and 
bound  him  fait  in  chains,  the  better  to  referve  him 
to  the  judgment  that  he  had  appointed  for  him. 
But  Diabolus  ftood  up  to  entreat  for  himfelf,that 
Emmanuel  would  not  fend  him  into  the  deep,  but 
fufrer  him  to  depart  out  of  man  foul  in  peace. 

When  Emmanuel  had  taken  bim  and  bound  him 
He  is  taken,  in  chains, he  led  him  into  themarket- 
an  J  bound  place,  and  there,  before  manfoul,ltript 
in  chains.  him  of  his  armour  in  which  heboafted 
fo  much  before.  This  now  was  one  of  the  acts  of 
triumph  of  Emmanuel  over  his  enemy.  And, all  the 
while  that  the  Giant  was  {tripping, the  trumpets  of 
the  Golden  Prince  did  found  amain  ;  the  captains 

j  fhouted,  and  the  foldiers  did  fing  for  joy. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  123 

Then  was  manfoul  called  upon  to  behold  the 
Manfoul  beginning  of  Emmanuel's  triumph  over 
muft  be-  him  in  whom  they  fo  much  had  trufted, 
hold  it,  and  of  whom  they  fo  much  had  boaited 
in  the  days  when  he  flattered  them. 

Thus  having  made  Diabolus  naked  in  the  eyes 
CoL  ii.  15.  of  manfoul,  and  before  the  command- 
ite is  bound  ers  of  the  Prince  ;  in  the  next  pi  ace,  he 
to  his  cha-  commands  that  Diabolus  mould  be. 
riot  ivhce/s.bouhd  with  chains  to  his  chariot- 
wheels.  Then  leaving  of  fome  of.  lur*.  forces,  to 
wit,  Captain  Boanerges  and  Captain'  Conviction,, 
as  a  guard  for  the  Caftlc-gates,  that  refiftance 
might  be  made  on  his  behalf  (if. any  that  hereto-. 
The  Prince  fore  followed  Diabolus  mould  make 
rides  in  tri-  an  attempt  to  poffefs  it)  he  did  ride 
umpb  over  in  triumph  over  him  quite  through 
him  in  the  the  town  of  manfoul,  and  fo  out  at" 
fight  of  and  before  the  gate  called  Eye-gate,: 
Manfoul.  to  the  plain  where  his  camp  did  \yer 
But  you  cannot  think(unlefs  you  had  been  there, 
as  I  was)  what  a  fhout  there  was  in  Emmanuei'sr 
camp,  when  they  favv  the  tyrant  bound  by  the  hanefc 
of  their  noble  Prince,  and  tied  to  his  chariot-* 
wheels. 

And  they  faid,  "He  hath  led  captivity  captive,. 
y,      p       u   he  hath    fpoiled   principalities    and- 

j  J  £•  powers  .  Diabolus  is  fubjedted  to  t he- 
power  of  his  fword,  and  made  the  objeel  of  all  de~ 
rifion. 

Thofe  alfo  that  rode  reformadoes,and  that  came 
The  ref  down  t0  ^ee  tne  battle,  they  fhout  eel 
madoesjo'y.  WJ*  *%  greatnefsof  voice,and  fung 
J  J  with  fuch  melodious  notes,  that  they' 
caufed  them  that  dwell  in  the  higheft  orbs  to  open 
Luke  xv.  their  windows,  put  out  their  heads  and 
7,  10.  look  down  to  fee  the  caufe  of  that  glory > 
L  2 


I24  The    HOLY    WAR. 

The  townfmen  alfo,  fo  many  of  them  as  faw  this 
fight, were  as  it  were  aftonifned,  while  they  look- 
The  men  of ed  betwixt  the  earth  and  the  heavens. 
Man  foul 7tf-Truc,  they  could  not  tell  what  would 
ken  zuith  be  the  iffue  of  things  as  to  them,  all 
Emmanuel,  things  weredonein  fuch  excellent  me- 
thods ;  and  I  cannot  tell  how,  but  things  in  the 
management  ofthem  feemed  tocaft  a  fmile towards 
the  Town,  fo  that  their  eyes,  their  heads,  their 
hearts,  and  their  minds,  and  all  that  they  had, 
were  taken  and  held  while  they  obferved  Emma- 
nuel's order. 

So,  when  the  brave  Prince  had  finifhed  this  part 
of  his  triumph  over  Diabolus  his  foe,  he  turned 
him  up,  in  the  midft  of  this  contempt  and  fhame, 
having  given  him  a  charge  no  more  to  be  a  pof- 
■»-      ,..  feflorofmanfoul.  Then  went  he  from 

'  43*  Emmanuel,  and  out  of  the  midft  of 
his  camp,  to  inherit  the  parched  places  in  a  fait 
•kind,  feeking  reft,  but  finding  none. 

Now,  Captain  Boanerges  and  Captain  Convic- 
tion were  both  of  them  men  of  very  great  maj  eft  y, 
their  faces  were  like  the  faces  of  lions,  and  their 
words  like  the  roaring  of  the  fea  ;  and  they  ftill 
quartered  in  Mr.  Conference's  houfe,  of  whom 
mention  was  made  before.  When,  therefore,  the 
high  and  mighty  Prince  had  thus  far  finifhed  his 
The  carri  triumph  over  Diabolus,the  townfmen 
age  of  Boa-  had  more  leifure  to  view  and  tobehold 
merges  &  of  the  actions  of  thefe  noble  captains. 
CaptMConvic-Buz  the  captains  carried  it  with  that 
Uon  crufh  the  terror  and  dread  in  all  that  they  did, 
jpirit  of  (and  you  may  be  fure  that  they  had 
Manful.  private  inftructions  fo  to  do)that  they 
kept  the  Town  under  continual  heart-akeing,  and 
caufed  (in  their  apprehenfion)  the  well-being  of 
ruanibul  for  the  future  to  hang   in  doubt  before 


The    HOLY  WAR.  125 

them;  fo  that  (for  fome  confiderable  time)  they 
neither  knew  what  reft, or  eafe,  or  peace,  or  hope, 
meant. 

Nor  did  the  Prince  himfelf,  as  yet,  abide  in  the. 
town  of  manfoul,  but  in  his  royal  pavilion  in  the 
camp,  and  in  the  midft  of  his  Father's  forces.  So, 
at  a  time  convenient,  he  fent  fpecial  orders  to  cap- 
tain Boanerges  to  fummon  manfoul,  the  whole  of 
the  townfmen,  into  the  Caftle-yard,  and  then  and 
The  Prince  there,  before  their  faces,  to  take  my 
commands,  Lord  Underftanding,  Mr.  Confcience^ 
and  the  cap-  and  that  notable  one  the  Lord  Will- 
tains  put  the  bewill,and  put  them  all  three  in  ward, 
three  chief  and  that  they  mould  let  aflrong  guard 
of  Manfoul  upon  them  there,  until  his  pleafure 
in  zuard.  concerning  them  were  further  known,. 
The  which  orders, when  the  captains  hadput  theni 
in  execution,  made  no  fmall  addition  to  the  fears 
of  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  for  now,  to  their  think- 
ing were  their  former  fears  of  the  ruin  of  manfoul 
confirmed.  Now,  whatdeath  they  mould  die,an& 
how  long  they  mould  be  in  dying,  was  that  which, 
moll:  perplexed  their  heads  and  hearts  :  yea,  they 
were  afraid  that  Emmanuel  would  command  tlienx 
all  into  the  deep,  the  place  that  the  prince  Dia~ 
bolus  was  afraid  of  -T  for  they  knew  that  they  had, 
deferved  it.  Alfo  to  die  by  thefword  in  the  face 
of  the  Town,  and  in  the  open  way  of  difgrace^ 
from  the  hand  of  fo  good  and  fo  holy  a  Prince, 
that  (too)  troubled  them   fore.     The   town    was; 

n/r  r  j  alfo  greatly  troubled  for  the  men  that 
Manfoul  B         J .       ,  3   ,.       ,         , 

//   d'  were  committed  to  ward,  for  that  they. 

II     (T'd       were  their  flay    and    their   guide,  and 

•  ;?.  '      for  that   they  believed    that,    if  thofe 

men  were  cut  off,  their  execution   would    be  but 

the   beginning   of    the    ruin  of    the    town    oE 

manfoul. 

L3 


126  The    HOLY    WAR. 

They  fend  a  Wherefore,  what  do  they,  but,  toge- 
petition  to  ther  with  the  men  in  priibn,dravv  up 
Emmanuel  apetition  to  the  Prince,  and  fent  it  to 
by  the  band  Emmanuel  by  thchand  of  Mr.  Would- 
of  Mr.  Jive.     So  he  went  and  came   to  the 

IVould-live.  Prince's  quarters,  and  prefented  the 
petition,  the  fum  of  which  was  this  : 

"Great  and  wonderful  Potentate,  Victor  over 
Diabolus,  and  Conqueror  of  the  town  of  manfoul. 
Wc,  the  miferable  inhabitants  of  that  moft  woeful 
corporation,  do  humbly  beg,  that  we  may  find  fa- 
vour in  thy  fight,  and  remember  not  againil  us 
former  tranfgreffions,  nor  yet  the  fin  of  the  chief 
of  our  town,  but  fpare  us  according  to  the  great- 
nefs  of  thy  mercy,  and  let  us  not  die,  but  live  in 
thy  fight:  fo  fhall  we  be  willing  to  be  thy  fervants, 
and,  if  thou  fhalt  think  fit,  to  gather  our  meat  un- 
der thy  table.     Amen." 

So  the  petitioner  went,  as  was  faid,  with  his  pe- 

;   They  are       tition  to  the  Prince  ;  and  the  Prince 

: \  anfwered      took  it  at  his  hand, but  fent  him  away 

i  ;-zoith  filence.vfith  filence.     This  flill  afflicted   the 

town  of  man  foul  :  but  yet  confidering  that  now 

they  muft  either  petition  or  die(for  now  they  could 

'  They  peti-    not  do  any  thing  elie)  therefore   they 

..tian  again,  confulted  again,  and  fent    another    pe- 

;. tition  and  this   petition  was  much  after  the  form 

and  method  of  the  former. 

But  when  the  petition  was  drawn  up,  by  whom 
■They  can-  fhould   they   fend   it   ?    was    the  next 
noi  tell  by   queiiion  j  for  they  would  not  fend  this 
luhom  to     by  him  by  whom  they   fent  the   firft, 
fend  it.       (for  they  thought  that  the. Prince    had 
taken  forae  offence  at  the  manner  of  his   deport- 
ment before  him)  fo  they  attempted  to  make, Cap- 
'■  tain  Conviction  their *meffenger  with   it  ;  but    he 
t  laid*  'That  he  neither  durft  nor  would  petition 


, 


The    HOLY    WAR  127 

Emmanuel  for  traitors,  nor  be  to  the  Prince  an 
advocate  for  rebels.  Yet  withal,"  faid  he,  "  our 
Prince  is  good,  and  you  may  adventure  to  fend  it 
by  the  hand  of  one  of  your  Town  ;  provided  he 
went  with  a  rope  about  his  head,  and  pleaded  no- 
thing but  mercy." 

Well,  they  made,  through  fear,  their  delays  as 
long  as  they  could,  and  longer  than  delays  were 
good  ;  but,  fearing  at  lait  the  dangeroufnefs  of 
them,  they  thought,  but  with  many  a  fainting  in 
their  minds,  to  fend  their  petition  by  Mr.  Dtfires- 
awake  ;  fo  they  fent  for  Mr.Defires-awake  ;  now 
he  dwelt  in  a  very  mean  cottage  in  manfoul,  and 
he  came  at  his  neighbours*  requeft.  So  they  told 
him  what  they  had  done,and  what  they  would  do 
concerning  petitioning,  and  that  they  did  deiire 
of  him  that  he  would  go  therewith  to  the  Prince. 

Then  faid  Mr.  Defires-awake,  why  fhould  not  I 
Mr.  Defires-  do  the  belt  I  can  to  fave  fo  famous  a 
awake  goes  town  as  manfoul  from  deferved  de- 
-with  the  pe-  ft  ruction  ?  They  therefore  delivered 
tit  ion  to  the  the  petition  to  him, and  told  him  how  ■ 
Prince*  he  mult  addrefs  himfelf  to  the  Prince, 

and  wifhed  him  ten  thoufand  good  fpeeds.  So  tit 
comes  to  the  Prince's  pavilion  at  the  firft,and  afkecj 
ro  fpeak  with  his  Majefty  :  fo  word  was  carried  t6 
Emmanuel,  and  the  Prince  came  out  to  the  man. 
When  Mr.  Defires-awakefaw  the  Prince,  he  fell  flat 
with  his  face  to  the  ground,  and  cried  out,  "Othac 
"  manfoul  might  live  before  thee  !"  And  with 
that  he  prefented  the  petition.    The  which  when 

xj'  the  Prince  had  read,  he    turned   away 

His  enter-  r  ,  .1         j  t  r    •   -  • 

tainment.  for  a  whlle  and  wePc  1  bur>  refraining 
himfelf,  he  turned  again  to  the  man, 
(who  all  this  while  lay  crying  at  his  feet  as  at  the 
firitj  and  faid  to  him,  "Go  thy  way  to  thy  place/ 
and  I  will  confider  of  thy  requelts." 


i28  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Now,  you  may  think  that  they  of  manfoul  that 
had  lent  him,  what  with  guilt, and  what  with  fear 
Jell  their  petition  mould  be  rejected, could  not  but 
look  with  many  a  long  look,  and  that  too  with 
ftrange  workings  of  hearty  \io  fee  what  would  be- 
come  of  their  petition  :  at  lalt  they  faw  their  mef- 
fenger  coming  back.  So,  when  he  was  come,  they 
His  return^  afked  him  how  he  fared  ?  what  Em- 
atid  anfwer  manuel  laid  ?  and,  what  was  become 
to  them  that  of  the  petition  r  But  he  told  them  that 
fent  him.  he  would  be  filent  till  he  came  to  the 
prifon  of  my  Lord  Mayor,  my  Lord  Willbewill, 
and  Mr.  Recorder.  So  he  went  forwards  towards 
the  prifon-houfe,  where  the  men  of  manfoul  lay 
bound.  But,  oh,  what  amultkude  flocked  after  to 
hear  what  the  meiTenger  faid  !  So,  when  he  was 
come,  and  had  fhewn  himfelf  at  the  gate  of  the 
prifon,  my  Lord  Mayor  himfelf  looked  as  white  as 
a  clout,  the  Recorder  alfo  did  quake  :  but  they 
afked  and  faid,  "Come,  good  Sir,  what  did  the 
great  Prince  fay  to  you  :"  Then  faid  Mr.  Defires- 
awake,  "When  I  came  tomyLord'spavilion,!  call- 
ed, and  he  came  forth  ,  fo  I  fell  proftrate  at  his 
feetf  and  delivered  to  him  my  petition  (for  the 
great nefs  of  his  perfon,  and  the  glory  of  his  coun- 
tenance, would  not  fuffermetoftandupon  my  legs.) 
Now,  as  he  received  the  petition,  I  cried,  "O  that 
manfoul  might  live  before  thee  I"  So,  when  for  a 
while  he  had  looked .thereon,  he  turned  him  about, 
and  faid  to  his  fervanr,  "Go  thy  way  to  thy  place 
again,  and  I  will  confider  of  thy  requefts."  The 
mefTcnger  added,  moreover,  and  faid,  "The  Prince 
to  whom  you  fent  me  is  fuch  a  one  for  beauty  and 
glory,  that  whofo  fees  him  rnuft  both  love  and  fear 
him  ;  I,  for  my  part,  can  do  no  lefs  :  But  I  know 
not  what  will  be  the  end  of  thefe  things."  At  this 
Manfoul     anfwer  they  were  all  at  a  ft  and,   both 


The   HOLY    WAR.  129 

confounded  they  in  the  prifon,  and  they  that  folio  w- 
at  the  an-  ed  the  mefTenger  thither  to  hear  the 
fwer.  news  ;  nor  knew  they  what,  or  what 

manner  of  interpretation  to  put  upon  what  the 
Prince  hadfaid.  Now,  when  the  prifon  was  cleared 
The  prifon-  of  the  throng,  the  prifoners  among 
ers*  judg-  themfelves  began  to  comment  upon 
merit  upon  EmmanueFs  words.  My  Lord  Mayor 
the  Prince's  faid,  That  the  anfwer  did  not  look 
anftuer,  with  a  rugged  face  ;  but  Willbewill 
faid,  It  betokened  evil ;  and  the  Recorder,  That 
it  was  a  mefTenger  of  death.  Now,  they  that  were* 
left  and  that  flood  behind,  and  fo  could  not  fo 
well  hear  what  the  prifoners  faid,  fome  of  them 
catching  hold  of  one  piece  of  a  ientence,and  fome 
on  a  bit  of  another  ;  fome  took  hold  of  what  the 
mefTenger  faid,  and  fome  of  the  prifoners'  judg- 
ment thereon  ;  fo  none  had  the  right  understand- 
ing of  things !  but  you  cannot  imagine  what  work 
thefe  people  made,and  what  a  confufion  there  was 
in  manfoul  now. 

For,  prefently  they  that  heard  what  was  faid 
Mifgiving  flew  about  the  Town,  one  crying  one 
thoughts  thing,  and  another  the  quitecontrary; 
breed  con-  and  both  were  lure  enough  they  told 
fufion  in  true  ;  for  theydidhear (theyfaidjwith 
Manfoul.  their  ears  what  was  faid,  and  there- 
fore could  not  be  deceived.  One  would  fay,  We 
muft  all  be  killed  ;  another  would  fay,  We  mult 
all  be  faved  ;  and  a  third  would  fay,  That  the 
Prince  would  not  be  concerned  with  manfoul  ; 
and  a  fourth,  That  the  prifoners  muft  be  fudden- 
ly  put  to  death.  And,  as  I  faid,  every  one  flood 
to  ir,  that  he  told  his  tale  the  righted, and  that  all 
others  but  he  were  out  :  wherefore  manfoul  had 
now  moleflation  upon  moleflation,  nor  could  any 
man  know  on  v/hac  to  reft  the  fole  of  his  foot :  for 


i3o  The  HOLY    WAR. 

one  would  go  by  now,  and,  as  he  wenr,  if  he  heard 
his  neighbour  tell  his  tale,  to  be  fare  he  would  tell 
the  quite  contrary,  and  both  would  Hand  in  it  that 
he  told  the  truth  :  nay,fome  of  them  had  got  this 
yr  r  I  -  ft°ry  DY  tne  end,  That  the  Prince  did 
1  ay/U -fn  intend  to  put  manfoul  to  the  f word. 
p  f  ex:  y.  ^^  now  ^  oegantot,edark.  ;  where- 
fore poor  manfoul  was  in  fad  perplexity  all  that 
nigh:  until  the  morning. 

But,  fofar  asl  could  gather  by  thebeft  informa- 
tion that  I  could  get,  all  this  hubbub  came  thro' 
the  words  that  the  Recorder  faid,  when  he  told 
them  that, in  his  judgment,  thePrince's  anlwer  was 
IVh  '11  a  meur"enger  °f  death.  It  was  this  that 
y  fired  the  Town,  and  that  began  the 
,C  §Ul  fright    in   manfoul ;  for  manfoul    in 

former  times  did  ufeto  count  that  Mr. 
Recorder  was  a  feer,  and  that  his  fentence  was 
equal  to  the  belt  of  oracle's  :  and  thus  was  man- 
foul a  terror  to  itfelf. 

And    now  did    they    begin    to    feel    what 
ivere  the  effects  of  ftubborn  rebellion  and  unlaw- 
ful refi  fiance  again  ft   their  Prince   ;    I  fay,  they 
now  began  to  feel  the  effects  thereof  by  guilt  and 
ifcar  that   now  had  fwallowed  them  up:  and  who 
.   more  involved  in  the  one  but  they  that  were  molt 
in  the  other,  to  wit,   the  chief  of  the   town  of 
•  manfoul  ? 

To  be  brief,  when  the  fame  of  the  fright  was 
out  of  the  Town,  and  the  prifoners  had  a  little  re- 
~>j        m       covered   themfelves,    they    take    to 

>  z  '    .~        themfelves  fome  heart,  and   think   to 
..  fo/ve  tope-         .  .        L    d  •        r     if         •       c 
V-         £  •    petition  the  rnrrce  for  life  again,   bo 

s        they  did  draw  up  a  third  petiuon,the 

contents  whereof  were  thefe  : 

"Prince  Emmanuel  the  Great,  Lord  of   all  the 

worlds,  and  Mafter  of  mercy  \  we  thy  poor  wretch- 


The    HOLY   WAR.  131 

_,,  .  .  ed,  miferable  dying  town  of  manfoul, 
I  Kir  pen-  d0  confefs  unt0  thy  great  and  glo- 
rious Majefty,  that  we  have  finned 
againft  thy  Father  and  thee,  and  are  no  more 
worthy  to  be  called  thy  manfoul,  but  rather  to  be 
call  into  the  pit.  If  thou  wilt  flay  us,  we  have 
deferved  it  ;  if  thou  wile  condemn  us  to  the  deep 
we  cannot  but  fay  thou  art  righteous.  We  can- 
notccmplain  whatever  thou  doit,or  however  thou 
carrieft  it  towards  us.  but,  oh,  let  mercy  reign, 
and  let  it  be  extended  to  us  ;  O  let  mercy  take 
hold  upon  us,  and  free  us  from  our  tranfgreffions, 
and  we  will  ling  of  thy  mercy  and  of  thy  judg- 
ment.    Amen." 

This  petition,  when  drawn  up,  was  deflgned  to 

p  be  fent  to  the  Prince  as  the  firft  ;  but 

.rayera-     w^Q   fl^u^cl  carry  it  ?  that  was  the 

tended  with  0.        c         r -j  t    ..  1  •     j  '  •-. -t. 

i-rr    ,  queition.  borne  laid, Let  him  do  it  that 

atjpculty.  wentwiththenrfr;butothersthought 
not  good  to  do  that,  and  that  becaufe  he  fped  no 
better.  Now,  there  was  an  old  man  in  the  Town, 
and  his  name  was  Mr.  Good-deed  ;  a  man  that 
Coed-deed  bare  only  the  name,  but  had  nothing 
propofed  as  of  the  nature  of  the  thing.  Now.fome 
a  fit  per/on  were  for  lending  of  him,  but  the  Re- 
to  carry  the  corder  was  by  no  means  for  that  \ 
petition  ;  "For,"  faid  he,  "  we  now  ftand  in 
need  of,  and  are  pleading  for,  mercy  ;  wherefore, 
to  fend  our  petition  by  a  man  of  this  name  will 
feem  to  crofs  the  petition  itfelf,  mould  we  make 
Mr.  Good-deed  our  mefTenger  when  our  petition 
cries  for  mercy  ? 

"Befides,"  quoth  the  old  gentleman, *'  fhould 
the  Prince  now  as  he  receivesthe  petition,afk  him 
and  fay.  What  is  thy  name  ?  as  no  body  knows  but 
lie  will  ;  and  he  mould  fay, Old  Good-deed  ;  what 
think  you  would  Emmanuel  fay  but  this,   Ay,  is 


i32  The    HOLY    WAR. 

old  Good-deed  yet  alive  in  manfoul  ?  then  let  old 
Good-deed  fave  you  from  your  diftreffes.  And,  if 
he  fays  lb,  I  am  fure  we  are  loft,  nor  can  a  thou- 
fand  of  old  Good-deeds  fave  manfoul." 
After  the  Recorder  had  given  in  his  reafons  why 
rr  •  fi  old  Good-deed  fhould  not  go  with  this 
•  %*Sjn~  petition  to  Emmanuel,  the  reft  of  the 
J  *  prifoners  and  chief  of  manfoul  oppofed 
it  alfo  ;  and  fo  old  Good-deed  was  laid  afide,  and 
they  agreed  to  fend  Mr.  Defires-awake  again. 
So  they  fent  for  him,  and  defired  him  that  he 
would  a  fecond  time  go  with  their  petition  to  the 
Prince  ;  and  he  readily  told  them  he  would.  But 
they  bid  him,  that  in  any  wife  he  fhould  take 
heed. that  in  no  word  or  carriage  he  gave  offence 
to  the  Prince  ;  for  by  doing  fo,  for  ought  we  can 
tell,  you  may  bring  manfoul  into  utter  deftruclion, 
faid  they. 

Now,  Mr.  Defires-awake,  when  he  faw  that  he 
Mr.  Defires-  mult  go  this  errand,  befought  that 
azvake  goes  they  would  grant  that  Mr.  Wet-eyes 
again,  &c.  might  go  with  him.  Now  this  Wet- 
eyes  was  a  near  neighbour  of  Mr.  Defires,  a  poor 
man,  a  man  of  broken  fpirit,  yet  one  that  could 
fpeak  well  to  a  petition.  So  they  granted  that  he 
iliould  go  with  him.  Wherefore  they  addrefs 
themfelves  to  their  bufinefs  ;  Mr.  Defires  put  a 
rope  upon  his  head,  and  Mr.  Wet-eyes  went  with 
hands  wringing  together.  Thus  they  went  to  the 
Prince's  pavilion. 

Now,  when  they  went  to  petition  this  third 
time,  they  were  not  without  thoughts  that  by  often 
coming  they  might  be  a  burden  to  the  Prince. 
Wherefore,  when  they  were  come  to  the  door  of 
his  pavilion,  they  firft  made  their  apology  for 
themfelves,  and  for  their  coming  to  trouble/  Em- 
manuel fo  often  5  and  they  faid,  "That  they,  came 


The    HOLY   WAR-  133 

Their  apo-  not  hither  to-day,  for  that  they  de- 
iogy  for  lighted  in  being  troublefome  ;  or  for 
their  com-  that  they  delighted  to  hear  themfelves 
ing  again,  talk  ;  but  for  that  neceflity  caufed 
them  to  come  to  his  Majefty.  They  could  they 
(aid,  have  no  reft  day  nor  night,  becaufe  of  their 
tranfgreflions  againlt  Shaddai,  and  againft  Em- 
manuel his  Son.  They  alfo  thought  that  fome 
mifbehaviour  of  Mr.  Defires-awake  the  laft  time 
might  give  diftaite  to  his  Highnefs,  and  lb  caufe 
that  he  returned  from  fo  merciful  a  Prince  empty, 
and  without  countenance."  So,  when  they  had 
made  this  apology,  Mr.  Deilres-awake  call  himfelf 
proftrate  upon  the  ground,  as  at  the  firft,  at  the 
feet  of  the  mighty  Prince,  faying,  "  Oh  that  man- 
foul  might  live  before  thee  !"  and  (o  he  delivered 
his  petition.  The  Prince,  then,  having  read  this 
petition,  turned  afide  a  while  as  before,  and  com* 
Jng  again  to  the  place  where  the  petitioner  lay  on 
The  Prince  the  ground,  he  demanded  what  his 
talketh  name  was,  and  of  what  efteem  in  the 

with  them  account  of  manfoul  ?  for  that  he 
above  all  the  multitude  in  manfoul  fhould  be  fent 
to  him  upon  fuch  an  errand.  Then  faid  the  mart. 
to  the  Prince,  "  O  let  not  my  Lord  be  angry, 
Mr.  Defires'  and  whyinquireil  thou  after  the  name 
free  fpeech  of  fuch  a  dead  dog  as  I  am  !  Pafs 
to  his  by,  I  pray  thee,  and  take  no  notice 

Prince,  of  whom  I  am,  becaufe  there  is,  as 
thou  very  well  knoweft,  fo  great  a  difproportiort 
between  me  and  thee.  Why  the  townfmen  chofc 
to  fend  me  on  this  errand  to  my  Lord  is  bcfl 
known  to  themfelves;  but  it  could  not  be  for  that 
they  thought  that  I  had  favour  with  my  Lord  ; 
for  my  part,  I  am  out  of  charity  with  myfclf,  who 
then  ihould  be  in  love  with  me  ?  Yet  live  I  would, 
and  fo  would  I  that  my  townfmen  mould  ;  and 
M 


i54  The    HOLY   WAR. 

becaufe  both  they  and  myfelf  are  guilty  of  great 
tranfgrelfions,  therefore  they  have  lent  me,  and  I 
am  come  in  their  names  to  beg  of  my  Lord  for 
mercy.  Let  it  pleafe  thee  therefore  to  incline  to 
mercy,  but  afk  not  what  thy  fervants  are." 

Then  faid  the  Prince,  And  what  is  he  that  is 
become  thy  companion  in  this  fo  weighty  a  mat- 
ter r  So  Mr.  Deiires  told  Emmanuel,  that  he  was  a 
poor  neighbour  of  his,  and  one  of  his  moit  intimate 
afTociates  ;  and  his  name,  faid  he,  may  it  pleafe 
your  molt  excellent  Majeity,  is  Wet-eyes,  of  the 
town  of  manfoul.  I  know  that  there  are  many  of 
that  name  that  are  naught  ;  but  I  hope  it  will  be 
no  offence  to  .my  Lord  that  I  have  brought  my 
poor  neighbour  with  me. 

Then  Mr.  Wet-eyes  fell  on  his  face  to  the  ground, 
and  made  this  apology  for  his  coming  with  his 
neighbour  to  his  Lord. 

■"  O  my  Lord,"  quoth  he,  "  what  I  am,  I  know 
Mr,  Wet-  not  myfelf,  nor  whether  my  name  be 
eyes'  afo-  feigned  or  true  ;  especially  when  I 
logy  for  his  begin  to  think  what  fome  have  faid, 
coming  namely,  that  this  name  was  given  me 
<with  his       becaufe  Mr.  Repentance   was  my  fa- 

igbbour.  ther.  Good  men  have  bad  children, 
and  the  ilncere  do  oftentimes  beget  hypocrites. 
My  mother  alfo  called  me  by  this  name  from  my 
Ui  .die  ;.  but  wrhether  becaufe  of  the  moiftnefs  of 
.my  brain,  or  becaufe  of  the  fofcnefs  of  my  hearr, 
I  cannot  tell.  I  fee  dirt  in  my  own  tears,  and  fil- 
thinefs  in  the  bottom  of  my  prayers.  But  I  pray 
thee  (and  all  this  while  the  gentleman  wept)  that 
thou  wouldft  not  remember  againft  us  our  tranf- 
greiTions,  or  take  offence  at  the  unqualifiednefs  of 
rhy  fervants,  but  mercifully  pafs  by  the  fin  of  man- 
foul,  and  refrain  from  the  glorifying  of  thy  grace 
no  longer." 


Th$   HOLY    WAR.  135 

So  at  his  bidding  they  arofe,  and  both  flood 
trembling  before  him  ;  and  he  fpake  to  them  to 
this  purpofe  : 

"The  town  of  manfoul  hathgrievoufly  rebelled 
The  Prince's  againft  my  Father,in  tharthey  have 
dnfwer.  rejected  him  from  being  their  King, 
and  did  chufe  to  themfelves  for  their  captain,  a 
liar,  a  murderer,  and  a  runagate  ilave  :  For  this 
Diabolus,  your  pretended  prince,  though  once  fo 
highly  accounted  of,  by  your  mad  rebellion  a- 
gainlt  my  Father  and  me,  even  in  our  palace  and 
highefl  courr,  there  thinking  to  become  a  prince 
and  king  (but  being  there  timely  difcovered  and 
The  origt-  apprehended,  and  for  his  wickednefs 
nal  of  Dia-  bound  in  chains,  and  feparated  to  the 
bolus,  pit  with  thole  that   were  his   compa- 

nions) he  offered  himfelf  to  you,   and   you    have 
received  him. 

"Now  this  is,  and  for  a  long  time  hath  been, atl 
high  affront  to  my  Father  ;  wherefore  my  Father 
fent  toyou  a  powerful  army,  to  reduce  you  to  your 
obedience.  But  you  know  how  thofe  men,  their 
captains,  and  their  councils,  were  efteemedofyou, 
andwhat  they  received  at  your  hand  :  you  rebelled 
agairrft  them,  you  fhut  your  gates  upon  them,yOti 
bid  them  battle,  you  fought  them,  and  fought  roV 
Diabolus  againft  them.  So  they  fent  to  my  Father 
for  more  power,  and  I  with  my  men  are  come  to 
fubdue  you.  But  as  you  treated  the  fervants,  fo 
you  treated  their  Lord  :  you  flood  up  irt  hoftile 
manner  againft  me,  you  fhut  up  your  gates  agajnifc, 
me,  you  turned  the  deaf  ear  to  me,. and  refitted  as; 
long  as  you  could  ;  but  now  I  have  made  a  com 
quell  of  you.  Did  you  cry  to  me  for  mercy  fo 
long  as  you  had  hopes  that  you  might  prevail  a- 
gainft  me  \  But,  now  I  have  taken  the  Town,you 
cry  ;  but  why  did  you  not  cry  before,  when  the 
M2 


136  The    HOLY    WAR. 

white  flag  of  my  mercy,  and  the  red  flag  ofjuftice, 
and  the  black  flag  that  threatened  execution, were 
fet  up  to  cite  you  to  it  ?  Now  I  have  conquered 
your  Diabolus,  you  come  to  me  for  favour  ;  but 
why  did  you  not  help  meagainft  the  mighty  ?  Yet 
I  will  confider  your  petition,  and  will  anfwer  it  fo 
as  will  be  for  my  glory. 

"Go  bid  Captain  Boanerges  and  Captain  Con- 
viction bring  the  prifoners  out  to  me  into  the  camp 
to-morrow  ;  and  fay  you  to  Captain  Judgment 
and  Captain  Execution,  flay  you  in  theCaflle,and 
take  good  heed  to  yourfelves  that  you  keep  all 
quiet  in  manfoul,  until  you  fhall  hear  further  from 
me/'  And  with  that  he  turned  himfelf  from  them, 
and  went  into  his  Royal  pavilion  again. 

So  the  petitioners,  having  received  this  anfwer 
from  the  Prince,  returned  as  at  the  firft  to  go  to 
their  companions  again.  But  they  had  not  gone 
far  but  thoughts  began  to  work  in  their  minds, 
that  no  mercy  as  yet  was  intended  by  the  Prince 
to  manfoul :  fo  they  went  to  the  place  where  the 
prifoners  lay  bound  ;  but  the  workings  of  mind 
about  what  would  become  of  manfoul  had  fuch 
ftrong  power  over  them,  that  by  that  they  were 
come  unto  them  that  fern  them,  they  were  fcarce 
able  to  deliver  their  meiTage. 

But  they  came  at  length  to  the  gates  of  the 
Town  (now  the  townfmen  with  earneflnefs  were 
waiting  for  their  return)  where  many  met  them, 
to  know  what  anfwer  was  made  to  the  petition. 
Then  they  cried  out  to  thofe  that  were  fent,What 
news  from  the  Prince,  and  what  hath  Emmanuel 
faid  ?,  But  they  faid,  that  they  muft  (as  afore)  go 
up  to  the  prifon,  and  there  deliver  their  meiTage. 
*  Of  in-  So  away  they  went  to  the  prifon  with 
-fuifiuve  a  multitude  *  at  their  heels.  Now, 
'.thoughts,  when  they  were  come  to  the  gates   of 


The    HOLY  WAR.  137 

the  prifon  they  told  the  rirft  part  of  Emmanuel's 
fpeech  to  the  prifoners,  to  wit,  How  he  reflected 
upon  their  dift  >yahy  to  his  Father, and  himlllf,and 
how  they  had  chofe  and  clofed  with  Di.»bolus,had 
fought  for  him*  hearkened  to  him,  and  be  n  ruled 
by  him,  but  had  defpiled  him  and  his  men.  This 
made  the  prifoners  look  pale.  But  the  meffengers 
The  mejftn-  proceeded,  and  faid,  "He,  the  Prince, 
gers,  in  tell-  faid, moreover,  that  he  would  conlider 
ing  their  your  petition,  and  give  fuch  anfwer 
tale ,  fright  thereto  as  would  it  and  with  his  glory." 
the  pri-  And  as  thefe  words  were  fpoken,  Mr. 
foners.  Wet  eyes  gave  a  great  figh.     At  thk 

they  were  all  of  them  ilruck  into  their  dumps, and 
could  not  tell  what  to  fay  ;  Fear  alfo  poffdTed  them 
in  a  marvellous  manner,  and  Death  feemed  to  fit 
upon  fome  of  their  eyebrows.  Now,  there  was  in 
the  company  a  notable  fharp-wittcd  fellowya  mean 
Old  Inaui-  man  of  eftate^  and  his  name  was  Old 
fitive  Inquifuive  ;  this  man  afked  the.  peti- 
tioners, if  they  had  told  out  every- whit  of  what 
Emmanuel  faid.  And  they  anfwered,  Verily  no. 
Then  faid  Inquifuive,  I  thought  foindecd.  Pray; 
what  was  it  more,  that  he  faid  unto  you  ?  The  a 
they  paufeda-while;  but  at  laft  they- brought  out- 
all,  fayingjThc  Prince  did  bid  us  bid. Captain  Boa- 
nerges and  CaptainConvidion, bring  the  prifoners 
down  to  him  to-morrow,  and  that  Captain-  Judg- 
ment and  Captain  Execution  fhould  take  charge 
of  the  Callle  and  Town  till  they  ihould  hear  fur- 
ther from- him/  They  faid  alfo,  That,  when  the 
Prince  had  commanded  them  thus  to  do,  he  im- 
mediately turned  his  back  upon  them,  and  wenc 
into  his  Royal  pavilion, 

But  O  how  this  return,  and  efpecially  this  laft 
claufe  of  if,  that  the  prifoners  nmft  go  out  to  uhe 
Prince*  into  the  camp,  broke  all  their  loins    iu  i 

M3 


138  The    HOLY    WAR. 

pieces !  Wherefore,  with  one  voice,they  fet  up  a 
cry  that  reached  up  to  the  heavens:  this  done,each 
of  the  three  prepared  himfelf  to  die  (and  the  Re- 
(|  Confci-  corder  (|  faid  unto  them,  'This  was  the 
ence.  thing  that  I  feared  ;")  for  they  concluded 
that,  to-morrow  by  that  the  fun  went  down, they 
ihould  be  tumbled  out  of  the  world.  The  whole 
Town  alfo  counted  of  no  other  but  that  in  their 
time  and  order  they  muft  all  drink  of  the  fame 
cup.  Wherefore  the  town  of  manfoul  fpent  that 
night  in  mourning  and  fackcloth  and  afhes.  The 
prifoners  alfo,  when  the  time  was  come  for  them 
to  go  down  before  the  Prince,  dreffed  themfelvea 
in  mourning  attire,  with  ropes  upon  their  heads. 
The  whole  town  of  manfoul  alfo  fhewed  them- 
felves  upon  the  wall,  all  clad  in  mourning  weeds, 
if  perhaps  the  Prince  with  fight  thereof  might  be 
moved  with  companion.  But,  oh,  how  the  bufy 
*  Vain  bodies  *  that  were  in  the  town  of  man- 
iboughts.  foul  did  now  concern  themfelves  !  they 
did  run  here  and  there  through  the  ftreets  of  the 

"Town  by  companies,  crying  out   as  they   ran  in 

.tumultuous  ways,  one  after  one  manner,  and  ano- 
ther the  quite  contrary,  to  the  almoft  utter  def- 

.  traction  of  manfoul. 

Well,  the  time  is  come  that  the  prifoners  mull: 
go  down-  to  the  camp,  and  appear  before  the 
Prince  ;  and  thus  was  the  manner  of  their  going 
down  :  Captain  Boanerges  went  with  a  guard  be- 

?fore  them,  and  Captain  Conviction  came  behind, 
and  the  prifoners  went  down  bound  in  chains  in 
The  pi-     the  midft.      So,   I   fay    (the  prifoners 

finer s  h  id  went  in  the  midft,  and)  the  guard  went 
•  to  trial      with  flying  colours  behind  and  before, 
but  the  prifoners  went  with  drooping  fpirks. 
Or  more  particularly  thus  : 
The  prifoners  went  down  all  in  mourning  $  they 


The    HOLY    WAR..  l39 

How  they  put  ropes  upon  themfelves  ;  they  went 
-went.  on  fmiting  of  themfelves  on  the  brealte, 
but  duril  not  lift  up  their  eyes  to  heaven.  Thus 
they  went  out  at  the  gate  of  manfoul,  till  they 
came  into  the  midft  of  the  Prince's  army,  the  fight 
and  glory  of  which  did  greatly  heighten  their  af- 
fliction. Nor  could  they  now  longer  forbear,  but 
cry  out  aloud,  O  unhappy  men  I  O  wretched  men 
of  manfoul  !  Their  chains  ftill  mixing  their  dolo- 
rous notes  with  the  cries  of  the  prifoners,  made 
the  noife  more  lamentable. 

So,  when  they  were  come  to  the  door  of  the 
They  fall  Prince's  pavilion,  they  call:  themfelves 
down  fro-  proflrate  upon  the  place.  Then  one 
Jlrate  be-  went  in  and  told  his  Lord  that  the 
fore  him,  prifoners  were  come  down.  The  Pi  ince 
then  flfcended  a  throne  of  Hate,  and  fent  for  the 
prifoners  in  ;  who,  when  they  came,  did  tremble 
before  him,  alfo  they  covered  their  faces  with 
fhame.  Now,  as  they  drew  near  to  the  place 
where  he  fat,  they  threw  themfelves  down  before, 
him.  Then  faid  the- Prince  to  the  Captain  Boa- 
nerges,. Bid  the  prifoners  fland  upon  their  fee.r^ 
Then  they  flood  trembling  before  him,  and  he  faid,, 
"  Are  you  the  men  that  heretofore  were  the  fer~ 
They  are  vants  of  Shaddai  ?"  and  they  faid, 
upon  their  rt  Yes,  Lord,  yes."  Then  faid  the  . 
trial.  Prince  again,  ?*  Are  you  the  men  that  si 

did  fuffer  yonrfelves  to  be  corrupted  and  defiled, 
by  that  abominable  one,  Diabolus  ?"  and  they  faid,.; 
41  We  did  more  than  fuflrer  it,  Lord  ;  for  we  chofe 
it  of  our  own  mind."  The  Prince  gfjced  further, 
faying,  "  Could  you  have  been  content  .that  your 
flavery  fliould  have  continued  under  his  tyranny 
as  long  as  you  had  lived  ?"  then  faid  the  prifoners, 
41  Yes,  Lord,  yes  ;  for  his  ways  were  pleafing  to 
our  flefli,  and  we  were  grown  aliens  to  a  better. 


i4o  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Hate."  "  And  did  you,"  iaid  he,  "  when  I  came 
up  againft  this  town  of  manfoul,  heartily  wifh  that 
I  might  not  have  the  victory  over  you  ?"'  "  Yes, 
Lord,  yes,"  laid  they.  Then  faid  the  Prince, 
"  And  what  punifhment  is  it,  think  you,  that  you 
deferve  at  my  hand  for  thefe  and  other  your  high 
They  co n- .  and  mighty  fins  :"  And  they  faid, 
demn  them-  "  Both  death  and  the  deep,  Lord  ; 
fc/ves.  for  we  have  deferred  no  Ms."  He 
afked  again,  u  If  they  had  ought  to  fay  for  them- 
felves,  why  the  fentence  that  they  contended  they 
had  deferved  fliould  not  be  paffed  upon  them  ? 
And  they  faid,  "We  can  fay  nothing,  Lord; 
thou  art  jult,  for  we  have  finned."  Then  faid 
the  Prince,  "  And  for  what  are  thefe  ropes  upon 
your  heads  r"  The  prifbners  anfwered,  "  Thefe 
*S?us.  ropes*  are  to   bind   us   withal  to  the 

Prov.  v.  22.  place  of  execution,   if  mercy  be  not 
pleafing  in  thy  fight."     So  he  further  afked,  "  if 
^Powers  of "all  the  men   in    the  town  of  manfoul 
'  ibe  fouk        were  in  this  confeffion  as  they  ?"  And 

;     §Corrup-      they  anfwered,  "All  the  natives*,Lord; 

\Uons and      bat  for  the    Diabolonians§,  that  came 
■Mills.  into  our  Town    when  the  tyrant  got 

-  polTeflion  of  us,  we  can  fay  nothing  for  them." 

Then  the  Prince  commanded   that   an  hera!d|| 
'^Aviclory    mould  be  called  ;  and  that  he  mould, 

.proclaimed*  in  the  midft  and  throughout  the  camp 
of  Emmanuel,  proclaim,  and  that  with  found  of 
trumpet,  "  That  the  Prince,  the  Son  of  Shaddai, 
had,  in  his  Father's  name,  and  for  his  Father's 
glory,  gotten  a  perfect  conquerl  and  victory  over 
manfoul  ;  and  that  the prifoners  mould  follow  him, 
and  fay,  Amen."  So  this  was  done  as  he  had 
*Joyforthe  commanded.  Andprefentlythe*mu- 
vitlory.  fie  that  was  in  the  upper  region  found- 

ed melodioufly,     The  captains  that   were  in  the 


The    HOLY    WAR,  141 

camp  fhouted,  and  the  foldiers  did  fing  fongs  of 
triumph  to  the  Prince,  the  colours  waved  in  the 
wind,  and  great  joy  wasevery  where  ;  only  it  was 
wanting  as  yet  in  the  hearts  of  the  men  of  man- 
foul. 

Then  thePrince  called  for  the  prifonersto  come 
and  to  Hand  again  before  him ;  and  they  came  and 
They  are  flood  trembling  ;  and  he  faid  unto 
far'doned,  them,  "The  (ins,  treffpaffes,  iniquities, 
and  are  that  you,  with  the  whole  town  ofman- 
command-  foul,  have  from  time  to  time  commit- 
ed  to  pro-  ted  againfl  my  Father  and  me,  I  have 
claim  it  /wpower  and  commandment  from  my  Fa- 
ManfouL  ther  to  forgive  the  town  of  manfoul, 
and  do  forgive  you  accordingly."  And,  having 
fo  faid,  he  gave  them,  written  in  parchment, 
and  fealed  with  feven  feals,  a  large  and  general 
pardon  ;  commanding  bpth  my  Lord  Mayor,  my 
Lord  Willbewill,  and  Mr.  Recorder,  to  proclaim, 
and  to  caufe  it  to  be  proclaimed  to-morrow  by 
that  the  fun  is  up,  throughout  the  whole  town  of 
manfoul. 

Moreover,the  Prince  ftript  theprifoners  of  their 

Their  rags  mourning   weeds,   and    "  gave    them 

are  taken     "  beauty  for  afnes,  the  oil   of  joy  for 

from  them.  "  mourning,     and     the     garment   of 

Jfa.  lxi.  3.  "  praife  for  the  fpirit  of  heavinefs." 

Then  he  gave  to  each  of  the  three,  jewels  of 
A  ft range  gold,  and  precious  (tones,  and  took 
alteration,  away  their  ropes,  and  put  chains  of 
gold  about  their  necks,  and  ear-rings  in  their  earsv 
Now  the  prifoners,  when  they  did  hear  the  gra- 
cious words  of  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  had  beheld 
all  that  was  done  unto  them,  fainted  almoft  quite 
away  ;  for  the  grace,  the  benefit,  the  pardon, was 
fudd.en,  glorious,  and  fo  big,  that  they  were  not 
able  without  ftaggering  to  ftand  up  under  it.  Yea, 


i42  The    HOLY      WAR. 

my  Lord  Willbewill  fwo  med  outright  :  but  the 
Prince  ftept  to  him,  put  his  everl ailing  arms  un- 
der him,  embraced  him,  killed  him,  and  bid  him 
be  of  good  cheer,  for  all  ihould  be  performed  ac- 
cording to  his  word.  He  alfo  did  kifs  and  em- 
brace, and  fmile  upon  the  other  two.  that  were 
Willbewill's  companions,  faying,  "Take  thefe  as 
further  tokens  of  my  love,  favour,  and  compaf- 
fions  to  you  ;  and  I  charge  you,  that  you  Mr.  Re- 
corder tell  in  the  town  of  manfoul  what  you  have  j 
heard  and  feen." 

Then  were  their  fetters  broken  to  pieces  before 

tri  •   r>  -k  their  faces,  and  caft  into  the  air,  and 
J  heir  Guilt,   ,    .    n  i         j       j      A 

their  lteps  were  enlarged  under  them. 

Then  they  fell  down  at  the  feet  of  the  Prince,and 
kiffed  his  feet,  and  wetted  them  with  tears  ;  alfo 
they  cried  out  withamighty  firong  voice,faying, 
"BlefTed  be  the  glory  of  the  Lord  from  this  place/' 
So  they  were  bid  rife  up,  and  go  to  the  Town, and 
tell  to  manfoul  what  the  Prince  had  done.  He 
They  are  commanded  alfo,that  one  with  pipe  and 
fent  home  tabor  fliould  go  and  play  before  them 
ivith pipe  all  the  way  into  the  town  of  manfoul. 
end  tabor.  Then  was  fulfilled  what  they  never 
looked  for,  and  they  were  made  to  pof&fs  that 
which  they  never  dreamed  of.  The  Prince  alfo 
called  for  the  noble  Captain  Credence,  and  com- 
manded, that  he  and  fome  of  his  officers  fhonld 
.  march  before  the  noblemen  of  manfoul  with  flying 
Captain  colours  into  the  Town.  He  gave  alfo 
Credence  unto  Captain  Credence  a  charge,  that 
guards  about  that  time  that  the  Recorder  did 
them  home,  read  the  general  pardon  in  the  town 
of  manfoul,  that  at  that  very  time  he  mould,  with 
IVhen  Faith  flying  colours,  march  in  at  Eye:gate, 
and  Pardon  with  his  ten  thoufands  at  his  feet,and 
meet  toge-     that  he  ihould  fo  go  until  he  came  by 


The   HOLY   WAR,  143 

//;<fr,  Judg-  the  high  llreet  of  the  Town,  up  to  the 
inent  and  Caflle-gates  ;  and  that  himfclf  fhould 
Execution  take  poiTeflion  thereof  againft  his  Lord 
depart  from  came  thither.  He  commanded,  more- 
the  heart,  over,  that  he  mould  bid  Captain  Judg- 
ment and  Captain  Execution  to  leave  the  ftrong 
hold  to  him,  and  to  withdraw  from  manfonl,  and 
to  return  into  the  camp  with  fpeedunto  the  Prince. 

And  now  was  the  Town  of  manfoul  alfo  de- 
livered from  the  terror  of  the  firlt  four  captains 
and  their  men. 

Well,  I  told  you  before  how  the  prifoners  were 
entertained  by  the  noble  Prince   Emmanuel,  and 
how  they  behaved  themfel ves  before  him,  and  how 
he  fent  them  away  to  their    home   with  pipe  and 
tabor  going  before  them.    And  now  you  mult  think; 
that  thofe  of  the   Town,    that  had   all  this  while- 
waited  to  hear  of  their   death,    could  not  but  be. 
exercifed  with  fadnefs  of  mind,  and  with  thoughts 
that  pricked  like  thorns.     Nor  could  their  thoughts 
be  kept  toany  one  point  ;  the  wind  blew  with  them; 
all  this  while  at  great  uncertainties,  yea,  their  hearts; 
were  like  a  balance  that  had  been  difquieted  with.   . 
a  making  hand.     But  at  laft,  as  they,  with  many  • 
a  long  look,  looked  over  the  wall  of  manfoul,  they-  : 
thought  that  they  faw  fome  returning  to  the  Town  •  . 
and  thought  again,  who  mould  they  be,  too,  who 
fhould  they  be  I  At  laft  they  difcerned  that  they   . 
were  the  prifoners.      But   can  you  imagine  how 
their  hearts  were  furprifed  with  wonder  !  fpecially 
when  they  perceived  alfo  in    what    equipage,  anil 
with  what  honour  they  were  fent  home!  They  went' 
down  to  the  camp  in  black,  but  they  came  back  to 
the  Town  in  white  ;  they  went  down  to  the  camp 
A  ftrange   in  ropes,  they  came  back   in  chains  of 
alteration,  gold  ;    they  went   down   to  the  camp 
with  their  feet   in  fetters,  but   they  came   back  • 


144  The   HOLY   WAR. 

with  their  fteps  enlarged  under  them  ;  they  went 
alfo  to  the  camp  looking  for  death,  but  they  came 
back  from  thence  with  ajfurance  of  life  ;  they  went 
down  to  the  camp  with  heavy  hearts,but  came  back 
again  w'nh  pipe  and  tabor  playing  before  them.  So, 
fo  foon  as  they  were  come  to  Eye-gate,  the  poor 
and  tottering  town  ofmanfoul  adventured  to  give 
a  fhout  ;  and  they  gave  fuch  a  fhout  as  made  the 
captains  in  the  Prince's'  army  leap  at  the  found 
thereof.  Alas,  for  them,  poor  hearts  !  who  could 
blame  them,  fince  their  dead  friends  were  come  to 
life  again  ?  For  it  was  to  them  aslifefrom  the  dead, 
to  fee  the  ancients  of  the  town  ofmanfoul  to  fhine 
in  fuch  fplendour.  They  looked  for  nothing  but 
the  axe  and  the  block  ;  but  behold,  joy  and  glad- 
nefs,  comfort  and  confolation,  and  fuch  melodious 
notes  attending  of  them,  that  were  fufficient  to 
Ifa.  xxxiii.  make  a  flck  man  well.  So,  when  they 
24.  came  up,  they  fluted  each  other  with 

Welcome,  welcome  ;    and,  Bleffed  be  he  that  has 

,: .  fpared  you.  They  added  alfo, We  fee  it  is  well  with 
you, but  how  mult  it  go  with  the  town  ofmanfoul  ? 
and  will  it  go  well  with  the  town  ofmanfoul  ?  faid 
they.     Then   anfwered  them   the  Recorder  and 

;.'.  Gonfcience.  my  Lord  Mayor  ;  Oh  !  tidings  !  gJad 
The  under-  tidings  !  good  tidings  of  good,  and  of 
Jlanding.  great  joy  to  poor  manfoul  !  Then  they 
gave  another  fhout  that  made  the  earth  to  ring 
again.  After  this  they  inquired  yet  moreparticu- 
larly  how  things  went  in  the  camp,  and  what  mef- 
fage  they  had  from  Emmanuel  to  the  Town.  So 
they  told  them  all  paffages  that  had  happened  to 
them  at  the  camp,  and  every  hing  that  the  Prince 
did  to  them.  This  made  manfoul  wonder  at  the 
wifdnm  and  grace  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel.  Then 
they  told  them  what  they  had  received  at  his  hands 
for  the  whoJe  town  ofmanfoul ;  and  the  Recorder 


■  The    HOLY   WAR  145- 

0  the  joy  of  delivered  it  in  thefe  words,  Pardon, 
pardon  of  Pardon,  Pardon,  for  Mansout,  ; 
fin,  and  this  fhall  manfoul   know   to-mor- 

row. Then  he  commanded,  and  they  went  and 
fummoned  manfoul  to  meet  together  in  the  njar- 
ket-place  to-morrow,  there  to  hear  their  general 
pardon  read. 

But  who  can  think  what  a  turn,  what  a  change, 
what  an  alteration,  this  hint  of  things  did  make  in 
the  countenance  of  the  town  of  manfoul !  No  man 
of  manfoul  could fleep  that  night  for  joy  ;  in  every 
houfe  there  was  joy  andmufic,  finging  and  making 
merry  ;  telling  and  hearing  of  man-foul's  happi- 
nefs  was  then  all  that  manfoul  had  to  do  :  and 
this  was  the  burden  of  all  their  fong,  "  Oh  !  more 
of  this  at  the  rifing  of  the  fun  !  more  of  this  to- 
morrow !  Who  thought  yelterday,  would  onefay^ 
that  this  day  would  have  been  fuch  a  day  to  us  J 
Town-talk  and  who  thought,  that  faw  our  pri- 
ofthe  King's  foners  go  down  in  irons,  that  they. 
mercy.  would  have  returned  in  chains  of  gold-! 

yea,  they  that  judged  themfelves  as  they  went  to 
be  judged  of  their  Judge,  were,  by  his  mouth,  ac- 
quitted-; not  for  that  they  were  innocent,  but  of 
the  Prince's  mercy,  and  fent  home  with  pipe  and 
tabor." 

But  is  this  the  common  cuftorn  of  princes,  d^ 
they  ufe  to  fhow  fuch  kind  of  favours  to  traitors  \ 
No  1  this  is  only  peculiar  to  Shaddai,  and  unto 
Emmanuel  his  Son. 

Now  morning  drew  on  apace  ;  wherefore  tha 
Lord  Mayor,  the  Lord  Willbewill,  and  Mr.  Re* 
corder,  came  down  to  the  market-place  at  the  time 
that  the  Prince  had  appointed,  where  the  townfc. 
folk  were  waiting  for  them  ;  and,  when  they  came, 
they  came  in  that  attire,  and  in  that  glory  that  the 
Prince  had  puttheminto  the  day  before*  and  the 
N 


i46  The  HOLY    WAR. 

ftreet  was  lightened  with  their  glory.  So  the  May- 
or,Rccorder,and  my  Lord  Willbewill,  draw  down 
to  Mouth-gate,  which  wasat  the  lower  end  of  the 
market-place,  becaufe  that  of  old  time  was  the 
place  where  they  ufed  to  read  public  matters; 
thither  therefore  they  came  in  their  robes,  and 
their  tabor  went  before  them.  Now  the  eager- 
nefs  of  the  people  to  know  the  full  of  the  matter 
was  great. 

Then  the  Recorder  flood  up  upon  his  feet,and, 
The  manner  firft  beckoning  with  his  hand  for  fi- 
cf  reading  lence,  he  read  out  with  a  loud  voice 
the  pardon,  the  pardon,  But  when  he  came  to 
Exod.xxxiv*  thefe  words,  "  The  Lord,  the  Lord 
Mark  iii.  "  God,  merciful  and  gracious,  'par- 
il  doning  iniquity,  tranfgreflions  and  fins ;"  and 
to  them,  "  Ail  manner  of  fin  and  blafphemy  mail 
"  be  forgiven,?  &c.  they  could  not  forbear  but 
leap  for  joy:  forthisyoumuft  know, that  there  was 
:. conjoined  herewith  every  man's  name  in  manfoul  ; 
*  alfo  the  feals  of  the  pardon  made  a  brave  fhew. 

When  the  Recorder  had  made  an  end  of  read- 
.  Now  they  ing  the  pardon,  the  tnwnfmen  ran 
tread  upon  upon  the  walls  of  the  Town,  and  leap- 
thc  fiejb'.  ed  and  fkipped  thereon  for  joy,  and 
bowed  themfelves  feven  times  with  their  faces  to- 
wards Emmanuel's  pavilion,  and  fhouted  out  aloud 
for  joy,  and  faid,  "Let  Emmanuel  live -for  ever." 

Then  order  was  given  to  the  young  men  inman- 
Liveiy         foul,    that    they  fhould  -ring  the  bells 

id  warm    for  joy.     So  the    bells  did    ring,  and 

u^hts.      the  people  ling,  and   mufic   was  heard 

"very  houfe  in  manfoul. 

When  the  Prince  had  fent  home  the  three  pri- 
The  carriage  foners  of  manfoul  with  joy,  and 
of  ike  camp,  pipe  and  tabor,  he  commanded  his 
ns,    with   all  the  field-officers  and  fg!4i 


The    HOLY    WAR,  147 

throughout  his  army,  to  be  ready  in  that  morning 
that  the  Recorder  fhould  read  the  pardon  in  man- 
ibul,  to  do  his  further  pleafure.  So  the  morning, 
as  I  have  fhewed,  being  come,  juft  as  the  Recor- 
der had  made  an  end  of  reading  the  pardon,  Em- 
manuel commanded  that  all  the  trumpets  in  the 
camp  mould  found,  that  the  colours  mould  be 
difplayed,  half  of  them  upon  Mount  Gracious, 
and  half  of  them  upon  Mount  Juftice.  He  com- 
manded alio  that  all  the  captains  mould  fhewthera- 
felves  in  all  their  harnefs,  and  that  the  foldiers 
fhould  ihout  for  joy.  Nor  was  Captain  Crc- 
Faith  will  dence,  though  in  the  Cafrle,  filenc  in 
not  befilent  fuch  a  day  ;  but  he,  from  the  top  of 
When  Man-  the  hold,  fhewed  himielf  with  found 
foul  is  fa-  of  trumpet  to  manfoul,  and  to  the 
ve'f.  Prince's  camp. 

Thus  have  I  mewed  you  the  manner  and  \y%jjt 
that  Emmanuel  took  to  recover  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  from  under  the  hand  and  power  of  the  ty- 
rant Diabolus, 

Now,  when  thePrince  had  completed  thefe  out^ 
The  Prince  ward  ceremonies  of  his  joy,  he  again; : 
dif plays  bis  commanded  that  his  captains  and  fol- 
graces  be-  diers  fhould  fhew  unto  manfoul  fome: 
fore  Man-  feats  of  war.  So  they  prefently  ad- 
foul.  dreffed  themfelves  to  this  work.    But;: 

oh,  wkh  what  agility,  nimblenefs,  dexterity,  ;  ' 
bravery, did  thefe  military  men  difcover  their  f 
in  feats  of  war  to  the  now  gazing  town  of  m 
foul  !  They  marched,  they  countermarched,  they 
opened  to  the  right  and  left,  they  divided  and  fub- 
Tbey  are  divided,  they  clofed,  they  wheeled, 
ravifoed  at  made  good  their  front  and  rear  with 
fi&ty  of  their  right  and  left  wings,  and  twenty 
them,  .  things  more,  with  that  aptnefs,  and 
then  were  all  as  they  were  again,  that  they  took, 
N  2 


148  The    HOLY    WAR. 

yea,  ravifhed,  rhe  hearts  that  were  in  manfoul  to 
behold  it.  But  add  to  this,  the  handling  of  their 
arms,  the  managing  of  their  weapons  of  war, were 
marvellous  taking  to  manfoul  and  me. 

When  this  action  was  over,  the  whole  town  of 
They  beg  manfoul  came  out  as  one  man  to  the 
that  the  Prince  in  the  camp,to  thank  him  and 

Prince  and  to  praifehim  for  his  abundant  favour, 
his  men  W//and  to  beg  that  it  would  pleafe  his 
d-weli  with  Grace  to  come  into  manfoul  with  his 
them  for  men,  and  there  to  take  up  their  quar- 
tver.  ters  for  ever.    And  this  they  did  in  a 

molt  humble  manner,  bowing  themfelves  (ewen 
times  to  the  ground  before  him.  Then  faid  he, 
*'A11  peace  be  to  you."  So  the  Town  came  nigh 
and  touched  with  the  hand  the  top  of  his  golden 
fceptre,  and  they  faid,  "Oh  that  the  Prince  Em- 
manuel, with  his  captains  and  men  of  war,  would 
dwell  in  manfoul  for  ever  ;  and  that  his  battering- 
rams  and  flings  might  be  lodged  in  her  for  the  ufe 
'  and  fervice  o£  the  Prince,  and  for  the  help  and 
ilrength  of  manfoul  !  For,"  faid  they,  li  we  have 
..  roL-m  for  thee,  we  have  room  for  thy  men,  we 
,.  have  alfo  room  for  thy  weapons  of  war,  and  a 
v  place  to  make  a  magazine  for  thy  carriages.  Do 
it,  Emmanuel,  and  thou  (halt  be  King  and  Cap- 
Say,  and  tain  in  manfoul  for  ever.  Yea,  govern 
hsld  to  it,  thou  alfo  according  to  all  the  defires 
ManfyaL  of  thy  foul,  and  make  thou  governors 
and  princes  under  thee  of  thy  captains  and  men 
of  war,  and  we  will  become  thy  fervants,  and  thy 
laws  mall  be  our  direction." 

They  added,  moreover,  and  prayed  his  Majefty 
toconfiderthereof ;  "For,"faid  they,  "if  now,after 
all  his  grace  bellowed  upon  us  thy  miferable  Town 
of  manfoul,  thou  fhouldil  withdraw,  thou  and  thy 
captains  from  us,  the  Town  of  manfoul  will   die. 


The  HOLYWAR.  149 

Yea,"  faid  they,  "our  bJeffed  Emmanuel,  if  thou 
fhouldft  depart  from  us  now,  now  thou  haft  done 
fo  much  good  for  us,  and  fhewed  fo  much  mercy 
unto  us  ;  what  will  follow,  but  that  our  joy  will 
be  as  if  it  had  not  been,  and  our  enemies  will  a  fecond 
time  come  upon  us  with  more  rage  than  at  thefirft.; 
Wherefore,  we  beieech  thee,  O  thou  the  Deflre  of 
our  eyes,and  Strength  and  Life  of  our  poor  Town, 
accept  of  this  motion  that  now  we  have  madeun^ 
to  our  Lord,  and  come  and  dwell  in  the  midft  of 
us,  and  let  us  be  thy  people.  Befides,  Lord,  we 
a*,  -  r  do  notknow  but  that  tothisdaymany 
3  '  Diabolonians  may  be  yet  lurking  in 
the  Town  ofmanfoul,and  they  will  betray  us, when 
thou  malt  leave  us,  into  the  hand  of  Diabolus 
ag*in  ;  and  who  knows  what  dellgns, plots,  or  con- 
trivances, have  palled  betwixt  them  about  thefe 
things  already  ?  Loath  we  are  to  fall  again  into 
his  horrible  hands  :  wherefore  let  it  pleafe  thee  to 
accept  of  our  palace  for  thy  place  of  refidence, 
and  of  the  houfes  of  the  beft  men  in  our  Town  for 
the  reception  of  thy  foldiers  and  their  furniture."' 
Then  faid  the  Prince,  "If  I  come  to  your  Town, 
The  Prince's  will  ye  fuffer  me  further  to  profecute 
queftion  to  that  which  is  in  mine  heart  agairvft- 
ManfouL  mine  enemies  and  yours  I  yea,  will 
you  help  me  in  fuch  undertakings  :" 

They  anfwered,"  We-know  not  what  we  mail  do,. 

Their  an-  we  ^  not  tnm^  once  tnat    we  &$$$ 
fiver         bave  been  fuch -traitors    to   Shaddai   as 

we  have  proved  to  be  :  what  then 
fhall  we  fay  to  our  Lord  ?  Let  him  put  no  truft 
in  his  faints;  let  the  Prince  ct^ell  in  our  catrJe,. 
and  make  of  our  town  a  garrifon  ;  let  hi'm  fct  , 
noble  captains  and  hiswarlik.cibldiersoverus;  y 
Jet  him,  conquer  us  with  his  love,  and  overcome  us 
with  his  grace  :  and  then  furely  fhall  he  be  both. 

N  3 


I $q  The    HOLY    WARV 

with  us,  and  help  us,  as  he  was  and  did  that  morn- 
ing  that  our  pardon  was  read  unto  us  ;  we  (hall 
comply  with  this  our  Lord,  and  with  his  ways, 
and  fall  in  with  his  word  againft  the  mighty. 

"  One  word  more,  and  thy  fervants  have  done, 
and  in  this  will  trouble  our  Lord  no  more.  We 
know  not  the  depth  of  the  wifdom  of  thee  our 
Prince.  Who  could  have  thought,  that  had  been 
ruled  by  his  reafon,  that  fo  much  fweet  as  we  do 
now  enjoy  ihould  have  come  out  of  thole  bitter 
trials  wherewith  we  were  tried  at  the  rirfl  ?  Bur, 
Lord,  let  light  go  before,  and  letdove  come  after  : 
yea,  take  us  by  the  hand,  and  lead  us  by  thy 
eo.un.fels  ;  and  let  this  always  abide  upon  us,  that 
all  things  mall  be  for  the  bell:  for  thy  fervants  ; 
and  come  to  our  manfoul,  and  do  as  it  pleafeth 
thee  j  or,  Lord,  come  to  our  manfoul,  do  what 
thou  wilt,  fo  ttiou  keepefl  us  from  finning,  and 
kiiakeft  us  ferviceable  to  thy  Majefty." 

Then  faid  the  Prince  to  the  Town  of  manfoul 
Jrle  conf:nt-  again, "  Go,  return  to  your  houfes  in 
ttb  H  dzoell  peace,  I  will  willingly  in  this  comply 
An  Manfioul.  with  your  defires.  I  will  remove  my 
"Royal  pavilion,  I  will  draw  up  my  forces  before 
'Eye-gate  to-morrow,  and  fo  will  march  forwards 
^nto  the  town  of  manfoul ;  I  will  poffefs  myfelfof 
your  caftle  of  manfoul,  and  will  let  my  foldiers 
over  you  ;  yea,  I  will  yet  do  things  in  manfoul 
that  cannot  be  parallelled  in  any  nation,  country, 
or  kingdom,  under  heaven." 

Then  did  the  men  of  manfoul  give  a  fhout,  and 
returned  to  their  Jjoufes  inp  eace  :  they  alfo  told 
to  their  kindred  and  friends  the  good  that  Em- 
manuel had  promifed  to  manfoul.  And  to-mor- 
row", faid  they,  he  will  march  into  our  town,  and 
take  up  his  dwelling,  he  and  his  men,  in  manfoul. 

Then  went  out  the  inhabitants  of  the  Town 


The    HOLY    WAR.  iyi 

Prepara-  with  hade  to  the  green  trees,  and  to 
tionforhis  the  meadows,  to  gather  boughs  and 
reception,  flowers, therewith  to  ftrew  the  ifreets, 
againft  their  Prince,  the  Son  of  Shaddai,  mould 
come  ;  they  alio  made  garlands,  and  other  fine 
works, -to  betoken  how  joyful  they  were,  and  ! 
fhould  be,  to  receive  their  Emmanuel  into  man- 
foul  'y  yea, they  {hewed  the  ftreet  quite  from  Eye- 
gate  to  the  Caftle-gate,the  place  where  the  Prince 
mould  be.  They  alio  prepared  for  his  coming  what 
mufic  the  Town  of  manfuul  could  afford, that  they 
might  play  before  him  to  the  place  of  his  habita- 
tion. 

So  at  the  time  appointed  he  makes  his  approach 
to  manfoul,  and  the  gates  were  let  open  for  him; 
there  alio  the  ancients  and  elders  ofmanf.nl  met 
him,  to  falute  him  with  a  thoufand  welcomes. 
He  enters  Then  he  arofe  and  entered  manfoul,  he 
the  Town,  and  all  his  fervants.  The  elders  of 
and  bow.  manfoul  did  alfo  go  dancing  before 
him,  till  he  came  to  the  Caftle-gates.  And  this 
was  the  manner  of  his  going  up  thither  t  He  was ' 
clad  in  his  golden  armour,  he  rode  in  his  royal 
chariot,  the  trumpets  founded  about  him,  the  co- 
lours were  difplayed,  his  ten  thoufands  went 
up  at  his  feer,  and  the  elders  of  manfoul  danced 
before  him.  And  now  were  thq  walls  of 
the  famous  Town  of  manfoul  filled  with  the 
tramplings  of  the  inhabitants  thereof,  who  went 
up  thither  to  view  the  approach  of  the  bltiFed 
Prinze  and  his  royal  army.  Alfo  the  cafements, 
windows,  belconies,  and  tops  of  the  houfes,  were 
all  now  filled  with  perfons  of  all  forts,  to  behold 
how  their  Town  was  to  be  filled  with  good. 

Now,  when  he  was  come  fo  far  into  the  Town 
as  t  j  the  Recorder's   houfe,  he  commanded    that  . 
one  fuould  go  to  Captain  .Credence  to    know 


lS2  The    HOLY    WAR. 

whether  the  Cattle  of  manfoul  was  purified  to  en- 
tertain his  royal  Prefence  ;  ( for  the  preparation  of 

-rt  r  r  that  was  left  to  that  captain)  ;  and 
s  "'"  9'  word  was  brought,  that  it  was.  Then 
was  Captain  Credence  commanded  alfo  to  come 
forth  with  hispower  to  meet  the  Prince  ;  the  which 
was,  as  he  had  commanded,  done,  and  he  con- 
„  ,    ...  dueled  him  into  the   Cattle.     This 

*.  •  u"  7'  done,  thePrince  that  night  did  lodge 
in  the  Cattle  with  his  mighty  captains  and  men  of 
war,to  the  joy  of  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

Now,  the  next  care  of  the  townsfolk  was,  how 
The  townf-  the  captains  and  foldiers  of  the  Prince's 
men  covet  army  mould  be  quartered  among 
iuho  floall  them  ;  and  the  care  was,  not  how 
have  mop  of 'they  mould  fhut  their  hands  of  them, 
the  Prince's  but  how  they  mould  fill  their  houfes 
foldiers.  with  them  :  for  every  man  in  manfoul 
now  had  that  eiteem  of  Emmarmel  and  his  men  that 
nothing  grieved  them  more  than  becaufe  they  were 
not  enlarged  enough, every  one  of  them, to  receive 
the  whole  army  of  the  Prince  :  yea,  they  counted 
it  their  glory  to  be  waiting  upon  them, and  would, 
in  thofe  days,  run  at  their  bidding  like  lacquies. 
At  laft  they  came  to  this  refult. 
How  qua r-  i.  That  Captain  Innocency  mould 
tered.  quarter  at  Mr.  Reafon's. 

2.  Thar  Captain  Patience  mould  quarter  at  Mr. 
Mind's.  This  Mr.  Mind  was  formerly  the  Lord 
Willbewili's  clerk  in  time  of  the  rebellion. 

3.  It  was  ordered  that  Captain  Charity  mould 
quarter  at  Mr.  Affection's  houfe. 

4.  That  Captain  Good-hi  pe  mould  quarter  at 
my  Lord  Mayor's.  Now,  for  the  houfe  of  the  Re- 
corder, hunfelfdeiired,  becaufe  his  houfe  was  next 
to  the  Cattle,  and  becaufe  from  him  it  was  ordered 
by  the  Prince  that,  if  need  be,  the  alarm   ihould 


The   HOLY    WAR.  153 

be  given  to  manfoul  ;  it  was,  I  fay  defired  by  him, 
that  Captain  Boanerges  and  Captain  Conviction 
fhould  take  up  their  quarters  with  him,  even  they 
and  all  their  men,    ■ 

5.  As  for  Captain  Judgment  and  Captain  Exe- 

r,  cution   my   Lord    Willbewill    took 

Rom.  vi.  19    1  1 ;,    .  ,  .        ,         r 

y  them  and  their  men  to  him,    becaufe 

he  was  to  rule  under  the  Prince  for  the  good  of 

the  Town  of  manfoul  now, as  he  had  before  under 

the  tyrant   Diabolus  for  the  hurt   and,  damage 

thereof. 

6.  And  throughout  the  reft:  of  the  Town  were 
quartered  Emmanuel's  forces  ;  but  Captain  Cre- 
dence with  his  men  abode  ftill  in  the  Caflle.  So 
the  Prince,  his  captains  and  his  foldiers,  were 
lodged  in  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

Now  the  ancients  and  elders  of  the  Town  of 
manfoul  thought  that  they  never  fhould  have 
Manfoul  de-  enough  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel ;  his 
'lighted  with  perfon,  his  actions,  his  words  and  be- 
their  Pri  nee. hawiour,  were  fo  pleafing,  fo  taking, 
fodefirable,to  them.  Wherefore  they  prayed  him, 
that  though  the  caflle  of  manfoul  was  his  place 
of  refidence  (and  they  defired  that  he  might  dwell 
there  for  ever)  yet  that  he  would  often  vifk  the 
flreets,  r  houfes,  and  people,  of  manfoul  ;  "  For," 
faid  they,"  Dread  Sovereign,  thy  prefence,  thy 
looks,  thy  fmiles,  thy  words,  are  the  life,  and 
ftrength,  and  finews,  of  the  Town  of  manfouL" 

Befides  this,^hey  craved  that  they  might  have, 
without  difficulty  or  interruption, continual  accefs 
They  have  unto  him  (fo  for  that  very  purpofe 
accefs  un-  he  commanded  that  the  gates  mould 
to  him.  fland  open)  that  they  might  there  fee 
the  manner  of  his  doings,  the  fortifications  of  the 
place,  and  the  royal  manfion-houfe  of  the  Prince, 

When  he  fpake,  they  all  flopped  their  mouths 


154  The    HOLY     WAk. 

They  learn  and  gave  audience  ;  and,  when  he 
ef  him.  walked,  ic  was  their  delight  to  imitate 
him  in  his  goings. 

Now,  upon  a  time  Emmanuel  made  a  feaft  for 
the  Town  of  man  foul,  and  upon  the  feafting-day 
the  townsfolk  were  come  to  the  Caftleto  partake 
of  his  banquet.  And  he  feafted  them  with  all 
manner  of  outland.iih  food,  food  that  grew  not  in 
the  fields  of  manfoul,  nor  in  all  the  whole  king- 
dom of  Univerle  ;  it  was  food  that  came  from  his 
Father's  court  :  and  fo  there  was  dim  after  difh  fet 
Promife  af-  before  them,and  they  were  command-' 
ter  promife.  ed  freely  to  eat  ;  but  ftill,when  afrefli 
£xod.  xvi.  difh  was  fet  before  them,  they  would 
15.  whifpering  fay  to  each    other,   IVhat 

is  it?  for  they  will  not  what  rocalMt.  They  drank 
alfo  of  the  water  that  was  made  wine  ;  and  were 
Brave  enter  very  merry  with  him.  There  was 
tainment.  mufic  alfo  all  the  while  at  the  table, 
■PfiL  Ixxviii.  and  man  did  eat  angels'  food,  and  had 
24,  25*.  honey  given  him  out  of   the    rock  ; 

•  :  fo  manfoul  did  eat  the  food  that  was  peculiar  to 
the  court,  yea,  they  had  now  thereof  to  the  full. 
I  mud  not  forget  to  tell  you,  that  as  at  this  ta- 
ble there  were  muficians,  fo  they  were  not  thofe 
of  the  country,  nor  yet  of  the  Town  of  manfoul, 
but  they  were  the  matters  of  the  fongs  that  were 

-    fung  at  the  court  of  Shaddai. 

'  Now,  after  the  feaft  was  over,  Emmanuel  was 

t,.,,,  for  entertaining  the  Town  of  manfoul 
Riddles.        .  ,     r  a.  .,,,  r   r 

with   iome   curious  riddles    or   lecrets 

drawn  up  by  his  Father's  fecretary,  by   the  fkill 

The  holy      and  wifdom  of  Shaddai  ;  the   like    to 

Scriptures,  thefe  there    is    not   in    any  kingdom. 

Thefe  riddles  were  made  upon  King  Shaddai  him- 

felf,  and  upon  Emmanuel  his  Son,   and  upon  his 

wars  and  doings  with  manfoul. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  iSS 

Emmanuel  alfo  expounded  unto  them  fomc  of 
thefe  riddles  himfelf ,  but,  oh,  .how  they  were  en- 
lightened !  they  faw  what  they  never  law,  they 
could  not  have  thought  that  fuch  rarities  could 
have  been  couched  in  fo  few  and  fuch  ordinary 
words.  I  told  you  before  whom  thefe  riddles  did 
concern  ;  and, as  they  were  opened, the  people  did 
evidently  fee  it  was  fo  :  yea,they  did  gather  that 
the  things  themfelves  were  a  kind  of  a  portrai- 
ture, and  that  of  Emmanuel  himfelf  ;  for  when 
they  read  in  the  fchenie  where  the  riddles  were 
writ,  and  looked  in  -the  face  of  the  Prince,  things 
looked  fo  like  the  one  to  the  other,  that  manfoul 
could  not  forbear  but  fay,  This  is  the  lamb,this  is 
the  facrifke,  this  is  the  rock,  this  is  the  red  cow, 
this  is  the  door,and  this  is  the  way  ;  with  a  great 
many  other  things  more. 

And  .thus  he  difmiffed  the  Town  of  manfoul. 
The  end  of  'But  can  you  imagine  how  the  people 
their  ban-  of  the  corporation  were  taken  with  his 
quet.  entertainment  ?  Oh  1   they  were  trans- 

ported with  joy,  they  were  drowned  wirji  won- 
derment, while  they  faw  and  underftood,  and  con- 
fidered  what  their  Emmanuel  entertained  them 
withal,  and  what  myfteries  he  opened  to  them  ; 
and  when  they  were  at  home  in  their  houfes,  and 
in  their  mod  retired  places,  they  could  not  but 
ling  of  him,  and  of  his  actions.  Yea,  fo  taken 
were  the  townfmen  now  with  their  Prince  that 
they  would  fing  of  him  in  their  fleep. 

Now, it  wa%  in  the  heart  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel 
Man  foul  tnufl  to  new-model  the  Town  of  manfoul,' 
be  new-mo-  and  to  put  it  into  fuch  a  condition  as 
delled.  might  be  moll:  pleating  to  him,  and 

that  might  bell  (land  with  the  profit  and  fecuriry 
of  the  now  flourifhing  Town  of  manfoul.  He  pro- 
vided alfo  againft  infur  reel  ions  at  home,  and  inva- 


156  The    HOLY    WAR. 

fions  from  abroad  ;  fuch  love  had  he  for  the  famous 
Town  of  man  foul. 

Wherefore,  he  flrft  of  all  commanded  that  the 
The  iiijlru-  'great  flings  that  were  brought  from 
meats  of  his  Father's  court,  when  he  came  to 
war  mount-  the  war  of  man  foul,  mould  be  mount- 
ed.  ed,  fome  upon  the  battlements   of  the 

Cattle,  f  ^me  upon  the  towers  ;  for  there  were 
towers  in  the  Town  of  manfoul,  towers  new-built 
by  Emmanuel  iince  he  came  thither.  There  was 
alfo  an  instrument  invented  by  Emmanuel,  that 
was  to  throw  it  ones  from  the  caitle  of  manfoul 
out  at  Mout'hgate  ;  an  inltrument  that  could  not 
be  refilled,  nor  that  would  mils  of  execution  : 
wherefore,  for  the  wonderful  exploits  that  it  did 
when  ufed,it  was  called  the  (Vord  of  Truth, and  was 
committed  to  the  care  of,  and  to  be  managed  by, 
the  brave  Captain,  the  Captain  Credence,  in  cafe 
of  war. 

This  done,  Emmanuel  called  the  Lord  Willbe- 
tVillbcwill  will  to  him,  and  gave  him  in  command- 
fromoted.  ment  to  take  care  of  the  gates,  the 
-wall,  2nd  towers,  in  manfuil;  alio  the  Prince  gave 
him  the  Militia  into  his  hand,  and  a  fpecial  charge 
to  withftand  all  infurredrions  and  tumults  that 
might  be  made  in  manfoul  againit  the  peace  of  our 
Lord  the  King,  and  the  peace  and  tranquility  of 
the  Town  of  manfoul  :  he  alfo  gave  him  in  com- 
miflion,  that,  if  he  found  any  of  the  Diaboloniaus 
lurking  in  any  corner  in  the  famous  Town  of  man- 
foul, he  mould  forthwith  apprehend  them  and  iliy 
them  or  commit  them  to  Lite,  cuftody,  that  they 
may  be  proceeded  againit  according  to  law. 

Then  he  calLd  unto  him  the  Lord  Underftand- 
My  Lord  ing,  who  was  the  old  Lord  M.iyor, 
Mayor  put  he  that  was  put  out  of  place  when 
into  place  Diab^lus  took  the  Town,  and  put  him 


The    HOLY    WA  R.  157 

into  his  former  office  again, and  it  became  his  place 

for  his  lifetime.     He  bid  him  alfo  that  he  mould 

build  him  a  palace  near   Eye-gate,    and   that  he 

mould  build  it  in  fafhion  like  a  tower  for  a  defence. 

He  bid  him  alfo  that  he  mould  read  the  revelation 

of  myiteries  all  the  days  of  his  life,  that  he  might 

know  how  to  perform  his  office  aright. 

He  alfo  made  Mr.  Knowledge  the  Recorder,not 

r*         of  contempt,  to  old  Mr.   Confcience, 
Mr.  Know-  wJlQ  had  been  Recorder    before)    but 

ledge  ma  e  ^  ^^  .f  was  jn  ^.§  prjnce]y  m\n^  to 
Kecuraer.  confer  Upon  Mr.  Confcience  another 
employ  ;  of  which  he  told  the  old  gentleman  he 
mould  know  more  hereafter. 

Then  he  commanded  that  the  image  of  Diabolus 
mould  be  taken  down  from  the  place  where  it  was 
fetup,and  that  they  mould deftroy  it  utterly  ,beat- 
ing  of  it  into  powder,  and  calling  it  into  the  wind 
The  image  without  the  Town-wall  ;  and  that 
cf 'the  the    image    of  Shaddai    his    Father 

Prince  and  mould  be  fet  up  again,  with  his  own, 
his  Father  upon  the  Caftle-gates  ;  and  that  it 
fet  up  again  mould  be  more  fairly  drawn  than  e- 
in  Manfoul.  ver,  forafmuch  as  both  his  Father  and 
himfelf  were  come  to  manfoul  in  more  grace  and 
mercy  than  heretofore.  He  would  alfo  that  his 
R  ••       name  mould  be  fairly  engraven  upon 

'*"  the  front  of  the  Town,  and  that  it 
ihould  be  done  in  the  bed  of  gold,  for  the  honour 
of  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

After  this  was  done,Emmanuel  gave  out  a  com- 
Some  Dia-  mandruent  that  thofe  three  great  Dia- 
holonians  bolonians  mould  be  apprehended, 
committed  namely,  the  two  late  Lord  Mayors^ 
to  prifon.  to  wit,  Mr.  Incredulity,  Mr.  Luilings,. 
and  Mr.  Forget-good  the  Recorder.  Befidesthefe, 
there  were  fome  of  them  that  Diabolus  made  bur- 
O 


iyS  The    HOLY  WAR, 

gclfes  and  aldermen  in  manfoul  that  were  con> 
mitted  to  ward  by  the  hand  of  the  now  valiant, 
and  now  right  noble,  the  brave  Lord  Willbewill, 
And  thefe  were  their  names  ;  Alderman  Atheifm, 
Alderman  Hard-heart,  and  Alderman  Falfe- 
peace.  The  burgeffes  were,  Mr.  No-tnuh,  Mr. 
Pitilefs,  Mr.  Haughty,  with  the  like.  Thefe  were 
committed  toclofe  cuftody  ;  and  the  jailer's  name 
was  Mr.  Trueman  ;  this  Trueman  was  one  of 
thofe  that  Emmanuel  brought  with  him  from  his 
Father's  court,  when  at  the  firft  he  made  a  war 
upon  Diabolus  in  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

After  this  the  Prince  gave  a  charge,  that  the 
Diabolus'  three  ftrongholds,  that  at  the  command 
(Irongbolds  of  Diabolus  the  Diabolonians  built  in 
fulled  manfoul,  mould  be  demolifhed,  and  ut- 
iovjn.  terly   pulled  down  ;  of  which    holds 

and  their  names,  with  their  captains  and  gover- 
nors, yon  read  a  little  before.  But  this  was  long 
in  doing,  becaufe  of  the  largenefs  of  the  places, 
and  becaufe  the  ftones,  the  timber,  the  iron,  and 
all  rubbifrr,  was  to  be  carried  without  the  Town. 

When  this  was  done,the Prince  gave  order,that 
+4  Court  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  man- 
i -qiled }  to  try  foul  iliould  call  a  Court  of  judicature, 
U&.  Diabo-  for  the  trial  and  execution  of  the 
hnians.  Diabolonians  in  the  corporation, now 

.under  the  charge  of  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailer. 
x  Now,  when  the  time  was  come,and  the  Courtier, 
Tbepri-         commandment  was  fent  to  Mr.  True- 
faners  man  the  jailer  to  bring  the  prifoners 

brought  to  down  to  the  bar.  Then  were  the  pri- 
the  bar,  &c.  foners 'brought  down,  pinioned  and 
chained  together,  as  the  cultom  of  the  Town  of 
manfoul  was.  So  when  they  were  prcfented  before 
the  Lord  Mayor,the  Recorder,  and  the  reft  of  the 
.Honourable  bench,flrlt  the  jury  was  impanneiied. 


The    HOLY   WAR,  ijo 

and  then  the  witneffes  fworn.  The  names  of  the 
jury  were  Mr.Belief,Mr.True-heart, Mr. Upright, 
Mr.  Hate-bad,  Mr.  Love-good,  Mr.  See-truth, Mr. 
Heavenly-mind,  Mr.Moderate,Mr.  Thank-ful,Mr. 
Good-work,  Mr.  Zeal-for-God,  and  Mr.  Humble. 

The  names  of  the  witneffes  were  Mr. Know-all, 
Mr.  Tell-true,  Mr.  Hate-lies,  with  my  Lord  Will- 
bewill,  and  his  man,  if  need  were. 

So  the  prifoners  were  fet  to  the  bar.  Thenfaid 
Mr.  Do-right  (for  he  was  the  Town-clerk)  fet  A- 
jitbtifmfet  theifrri  to  the  bar,jailer«  So  he  was  fee 
to  the  bar  :  to  the  bar.  Then  faid  the  clerk,  "A the- 
His  indift-iim  hold  up  thy  hand.  Thou  art  indicl- 
ment.  ed  by  the  name  of  dtheifm  (an  intruder 

Athcifm.  upon  the  Town  of  Manfoul)for  that  thou 
haft  pernicioufly  and  dultifhly  taught  and  maintain- 
ed,that  there  is  no  God, and  fo  no  heed  to  be  taken 
to  religion.  This  thou  haft  done  againft  the  being, 
honour,andglory,of  the  King,and  againft  thepeace 
and  fafety  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  What  layeft" 
thou?  Arc  thou  guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  :" 

Cry.  Call  Mr.  Know-all,  Mr.  Tell-true,  and  Mr, 
Hate-lies,  into  the  Court. 

So  they  were  called,  and  they  appeared. 

Clerk.  Then  faid  the  Clerk,  You  the  witneffes 
for  the  King,  look  upon  the  prifoner  at  the  bar, 
Do  you  know  him  ? 

Know.  Then  faid  Mr.  Know-all,  Yes,  my  Lord, 
we  know  him,  his  name  is  Atheifm,  he  has  been  a 
very  peftilent  fellow  for  many  years  in  the  mife-/ 
rable  Town  of  manfoul. 

Clerk.  You  are  fure  you  know  him  ? 

Know.  Know  him  !  Yes,  my  Lord  :  I  have 
heretofore  too  often  been  in  his  company  to  be 
at  this  time  ignorant  of  him.  He  is  a  Diaboloni- 
an,  the  fon  of  a  Diabolonian  \  I  knew  his  grand- 
father  and  his  father. 
O2 


160  The   HOLY    WAR. 

Clerk.  Well  faid.  He  flandeth  here  indi&ed 
by  the  name  of  j4t he ifm,  &c.  and  is  charged,  that 
he  hath  maintained  and  taught,  that  there  is  no 
God,  and  fo  no  heed  need  be  taken  to  any  religion. 
What  fay  you,  the  King's  witnefles,  to  this  ?  Is 
he  guilty  or  not  ? 

Know.  My  Lord,  I  and  he  were  once  in  Vil- 
lains'-lane  together,  and  he  at  that  time  did  brifk- 
ly  talk  of  divers  opinions,  and  then  and  there  I 
heard  him  fay,  That,  for  his  part,  he  did  believe 
that  there  was  no  God  ;  but,  faid  he,  I  can  pro- 
fefs  one,  and  be  as  religious  too,  if  the  company  I 
am  in,  and  the  circumitances  of  other  things,  mall 
put  me  upon  it. 

Clerk.  You  are  fure  you  heard  him  fay  thus  ? 

Know.  Upon  mine  oath  I  heard  him  fay  thus. 

Then  faid  the  clerk,  Mr.  Tell-true,  what  fay 
you  to  the  King's  judges  touching  the  prifoner 
at  the  bar  ? 

Tell.  My  Lord,  I  formerly  was  a  great  com- 
panion of  his  (for  the  which  I  now  repent  me) 
and  I  4iave  often  heard  him  fay,  and  that  with 
very  great  ftomachfulnefs,  that  he  believed  there 
was  neither  God,  angel,  nor  fpirit. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  fay  fo  ? 

Tell.  In  Blackmouth-lane,  and  in  Blafphemers'- 
row,  and  in  many  other  places  be/ides. 

Clerk.  Have  you  much  knowledge  of  him  ? 

Tell.  I  know  him  to  be  a  Diabolonian,  the  fon 
of  a  Diabolonian,  and  an  horrible  man  to  deny  a 
Deity  ;  his  father's  name  was  Neverbegood,  and 
he  had  more  children  than  this  Atheifm.  I  have 
no  more  to  fay. 

Clerk.     Mr.  Hate-lies,  look  upon   the  prifoner 
at  the  bar  :  Do  you  know  him  ? 
Hate.  My  Lord, this  Atheifem  is  one  of  the  v-Heft 
wretches  that  ever  I  came  near,or  had  to  do  with, 


The   HOLY  WAR.  161 

in  my  life.  I  have  heard  him  fay,  that  there  is  no 
God,  and  alfo  that  there  is  no  world  to  come,  no 
fin  nor  punifhment  hereafter  ;  and,  moreover,  I 
have  heard  him  fay,  that  it  was  as  good  to  go  to 
a  whore-houfe  as  to  go  to  hear  a  fermon. 
Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  fay  thefe  things  r 

Hate.  In  Drunkards'-row,  juft  at  Rafcal-lane's 
end,  at  a  houfe  in  which  Mr.  Impiety  lived. 
Luftings  fet      Clerk.  Set  him   by,  jailer,  and  fet 
to  the  bar  :  Mr.  Luftings  to  the  bar. 

"Mr.  Luftings,  thou  art  here  indicted  by  the 
rj.  .  t-n  name  of  Luftings  (an  intruder  upon 
tiisiMict-  the  Town  of  manfoul)  for  that  then 
haftdevilifhly  and  traiteroufly  taught, 
by  practice  and  filthy  words,  that  it  is  lawful  and 
profitable  to  man  to  give  way  to  his  carnal  defires, 
and  that  thou  for  thy  part  halt  not, nor  never  will 
deny  thyfelf  of  any  finful  delight  as  Jong  as  thy 
name  is  Luftings.  How  fay  eft  thou  ?  Art  thou 
guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  :" 

Luff.  Then  faid  Mr.  Luftings,  My  Lord,  I  am. 
„.  ,  a  man  of  high  birth,  and  have  been 
ls *  '  ufed  to  pleafures  and  paftimesand  great- 
nefs  ;  I  have  not  been  wont  to  be  fnub'd  for  my 
doings,  but  have  been  left  to  follow  my  will  as  it 
it  were  law.  And  it  feems  ft  range  to  me  that  F 
fhould  this  day  be  called  intoqueftion  forthar,tnat 
not  only  I,  but  almoft  all  men,  do  either  fecrerly 
or  openly  countenance,  love,  and  approve  of. 

Clerk.  Sir,  we  concern  not  ourfelves  with  you; 
greatnefs  (tho'  the  higher  the  better  you  fhouhl 
have  been)  but  we  are  concerned,  and  jo  are  you 
now,  about  an  indictment  preferred  againft  you"; 
how  fay  you  ?  Are  you  guilty  of  it  or  nor  ? 

Luft.  Not  guifty. 

Clerk.  C.-yer,  call  upon  the  witnefles  to  ftand 
orthf  and.eive  their  evidence. 

o3 


i62  The   HOLY   WAR. 

Cryer.  Gentlemen,  you  the  witnefTes  for  the 
King,  come  in,,  and  give  in  your  evidence  for  our 
Lord  the  King  againit  the  prifoner  at  the  bar. 

Clerk.  Come  Mr.  Know-all,  look  upon  the  pri- 
foner at  thJb  bar  :  Do  you  know  him  I 

Know.  Yes,  my  Lord,  I  know  him. 

Clerk.  What  is  his  name  I 

Know.  Mis  name  is  Luftings  ;  he  was  the  fon 
of  one  Beaftly,  and  his  mother  bare  him  in  Flefh- 
ftreet  ;  me  was  one  Evil-concupifcence's  daugh- 
ter.    I  knew  all  the  generation  of  them. 

Clerk.  Well  faid.  You  have  heard  his  indict- 
ment, what  fay  you  to  it  ?  Is  he  guilty  of  the 
things  charged  againfl  him  or  not  ? 

Know.  My  Lord,  he  has,  as  he  faith,  been  a 
great  man  indeed  ;  and  greater  in  wickednefs 
than  by  pedigree  more  than  a  thoufand-fold. 

Clerk.  But  what  do  you  know  of  his  particular 
actions, and  efpecially  with  reference  to  his  indict- 
ment ? 

Know.  I  know  him  to  be  a  fwearer,  a  liar,  a 
fabbath-breaker  ;  I  know  him  to  be  a  fornicator, 
and  an  unclean  perfon  \  I  know  him  to  be  guilty 
of  abundance  of  evils.  He  has  been  to  my  know- 
ledge a  very  filthy  man. 

Clerk.  But  where  did  he  ufe  to  commit  his 
wickednefs?  In  fome  private  corners,  or  more 
open  and  fhamelefsly  ? 

Know,  All  the  Town  over,  my  Lord. 

Clerk.  Come,  Mr.  Tell-true,  what  have  you  to 
fay  for  our  Lord  the  King  againit  the  prifoner  at 
the  bar  ? 

Tell.  My  Lord,  all  that  the  firil  witnefs  fp'as 
faid  I  know  to  be  true,  and  a  great  deal  more  be- 
iides. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Luftings,  do  you  hear  what  thefe 
gentlemen  fay  \ 


The   HOLY    WAR.  163 

Lufl*  I  was  ever  of  opinion,  that  the  happieit 
His  fecond  life  that  a  man  could  live  on  earth 
flea,  was  to  keep  himfelf  back  from  nothing 

that  he  defired  in  the  world  ;  nor  have  I  been 
falfe  at  any  time  to  this  opinion  of  mine,  but  have 
Jived  in  the  love  of  my  notions  all  my  days.  Nor 
was  I  ever  fo  churliih, having  found  fuch  fweetnefs 
in  them  myfelf,  as  to  keep  the  commendations  of 
them  from  others. 

Court.  Then  faid  the  Court,  there  hath  proceed- 
ed enough  from  his  own  mouth  to  lay  him  open 
to  condemnation  ;  wherefore  fet  him  by,  jailer, 
and  fet  Mr.  Incredulity  to  the  bar. 

Clerk.  "  Mr.  Incredulity,  thou  art  here  indicted 
Incredulity  by  the  name  of  Incredulity  (an  intru- 
fet  to  the  der  upon  the  Town  of  manfoulj  for 
bar.  that  thou  haft  felonioufly,  -and    wick- 

His  indicl-  edly,  and  that  when  thou  wert  an  offi- 
ment.  cer  in  the  Town  of  manfoul,  made  head 

againtt  the  captains  of  the  great  King  Shaddai, 
when  they  came  and  demanded  pofTeflion  of  man- 
foul  ;  yea,  thou  didft  bid  defiance  to  the  name,', 
forces,  and  caufe,  of  the  King  ;  and  didft  alfo,  as 
did  Diabolusthy  captain,  ftirupand  encourage  the 
Town  of  manfoul  to  make  head  againft  and  refill 
the  faid  force  of  the  King.  What  fayeft  thou  to 
this  indictment  J  Art  thou  guilty  of  it  or  not  ?" 

Then  faid  Incredulity,  I  know  not  Shaddai,  I 
T7-  ,  love  my  old  Prince  ;  I  thought  it  my 
*  £  duty  to  be  true  to  my  truft,  and  to  do 
what  I  could  to  polfefs  the  minds  of  the  men  of 
manfoul  to  do  their  utmoft  to  refill  ftrangers  and 
foreigners,  and  with  might  to  fight  againft  them. 
Nor  have  I,  nor  fhall  I  change  mine  opinion  for 
fear  of  trouble,  though  you  at  prefent  are  pGffeffed 
of  place  and  power. 

Court, Then  faid  the  Court,  the  man,  as  you  fee^ 


i64  The  HOLY   WAR. 

is  incorrigible  ;  he  is  for  maintaining  his  villa- 
nies  by  ftoutnefs  of  words,  and  his  rebellion  with 
impudent  confidence  :  and  therefore  fet  him  byt 
jailer,  and  let  Mr.  Forget-good  to  the  bar. 

Clerk.  "  Mv.  Forget-good,  thou  art  indicted  by 
Forget-  the  name  of  Forget-good  (an  intruder 
good  fet  to  upon  the  Town  of  manfoul)  for  that 
the  bar.  thou,  when  the  whole  affairs  of  the 
///7/W/#-Town  of  manfoul  were  in  thy  hand, 
ment.  didft  utterly  forget  to  ferve  them  in 
what  was  good,  and  didft  fall  in  with  the  tyrant 
Diabolus  againit  Shaddai  the  King,  again  It  his 
captains,  and  all  his  hoft,  to  the  dishonour  of 
Shaddai,  the  breach  of  his  law,  and  the  endanger- 
ing of  the  deftruction  of  the  famous  Town  of 
manfoul.  What  fayft  thou  to  this  indictment  I 
Art  thou  guilty  or  not  guilty  ?" 

Then  faid  Forget-good, "  Gentlemen,  and  at  this 
Tj-  *  time  my  Judges,  as  to  the  indictment 
'  '  ■*  "by  which  I  ftand  of  feveral  crimes  ac- 
cufed  before  you,  pray  attribute  my  forgetfulnefs 
to  mine  age,  and  not  to  my  wilfulnefs  ;  to  the 
crazinefs  of  my  brain,  and  not  to  the  carelefnefs 
of  my  mind  ;  and  then  I  hope  I  may,  by  your  cha- 
rity, be  excufed  from  great  punifhment  though  I 
be  guilty." 

Then  laid  the  Court,"  Forget-good,  Forget- 
good,  rhy  forgetfulnefs  of  good  was  not  fimply  of 
frailty,  but  ofpurpofe,  and  for  that  thou'didft  loathe 
to  keep  virtuous  things  in  thy  mind.  What  was 
bad  thou  couldlt  retain,  but  what  was  good  thou 
couldil  not  abide  to  think  of ;  thy  age,  therefore, 
and  thy  pretended  crazinefs,  thou  makeit  ufe  of  to 
blind  the  Court  withal,  and  as  a  cloak  to  cover  thy 
knavery.  But  let  us  hear  what*  the  witneifes  have 
to  f.iy  for  the  King  againit  the  prifoner  at  the  bar. 
Is  he  guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  ??v 


The  HOLY    WAR.  \6; 

Hate.  My  Lord,  I  have  heard  this  Forget-good 
fay,  that  he  could  never  abide  to  think  of  goOd- 
nefs,  no,  not  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  fay  fo  ? 

Hate.  In  All-bafe-lanc,  at  a  houfe  next  door  to 
the  flgn  of  the  Confcience  feared  with  an  hot  Iron. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Know-all,  what  can  you  fay  for  our 
Lord  the  King  againft  the  prifoner  at  the  bar  ? 

Know.  My  Lord,  I  know  this  man  well ;  he  is 
a  Diabolonian,  the  fon  of  a  Diabolonian  ;  his  fa- 
ther's name  was  Love-naught ;  and  for  him,  I 
have  often  heard  him  fay,  that  he  counted  the 
very  thoughts  of  goodnefs  the  moil  burdenfomc 
thing  in  the  world. 
Clerk.  Where  haveyou heard  himfaythefe  words  \ 

Know.  In  Fieih-lane,  right  oppofite  to  the 
church. 

Then  faid  the  Clerk,  "Come,  Mr.  Tell-true, 
give  in  your  evidence  concerning  the  prifoner  at 
the  bar,  about  that  for  which  he  ftands  here,  as 
you  fee,  indicted  before  this  honourable  Court." 

Tell.  My  Lord,  I  have  heard  him  often  fay,  he 
had  rather  think  of  the  vileft  thing  than  of  what 
is  contained  in  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  fay  fuch  grie- 
vous words  ? 

Tell.  Where  I  In  a  great  many  places,  parti- 
cularly in  Naufeous-ftreet,  in  the  houfe  of  one 
Shamelefs,  and  in  Filth-lane,  at  the  fign  of  the  Re- 
probate, next  door  to  the  Defcent  into  the  Pit. 

Court.  Gentlemen,  you  have  heard  the  indict- 
ment, his  plea,and  the  teflimony  of  the  witneffes. 
jailer,  fet  Mr.  Hard-heart  to  the  bar, 

Clerki  "Mr.  Hard-heart,  thou  art  here  indicted 
Hard-heart  by  the  name  of  Hard-beart,  (an  in- 
fet  to  the  truder  upon  the  Town  of  manfoul) 
bar.  for  that    thou  didil  moil  defperately 


166  The    HOLY    WAR. 

and  wickedly  poffefs  the  Town  of  manfoul  with 
impenitency  and  obduratenefs,  and  didtt  keep 
them  from  remorfe  and  farrow  for  their  evils  all 
the  time  of  their  apoftafy  from,  and  rebellion 
againft  the  bleffed  King  Shaddai.  What  fayeft 
thou  to  this  indictment  ?  Art  thou  guilty  or  not 
guilty  I"  f 

Hard,  My  Lord,  I  never  knew  what  remorfe 
or  forrow  meant  in  all  my  life:  I  am  impenetrable, 
I  care  for  no  man  ;  nor  can  I  be  pierced  with 
men's  griefs,  their  groans  will  not  enter  into  my 
heart ;  whomeverl  mifchieve,  whomever  I  wrong* 
to  me  it  is  mufic,  when  to  others  mourning. 

Court.  You  fee  the  man  is  a  right  Diabolonian, 
and  has  convicted  himfelf.  Set  him  by,  jailer, 
and  fet  Mr.  Falfe-peace  to  the  bar. 

Clerk.  "  Mr.  Falfe-peace,  thou  art  here  indicted 

Falfe-peace    by  the  name  of  Falfe-peace    (an    in- 

fet  to  the        truder  upon  the  Town   of  manfout) 

•  har  :  His  in-  for  that  thou  didfl  mofl  wickedly  and 

didment.       fatanically  bring,  hold  and  keep,  the 

Town  of  manfoul,  both  in  her  apoftafy,  and  in  her 

-  helii/h  rebellion,  in  a  falfe,groundlefs>and  danger- 

ou^peace,  and  damnable  fecurity,to  the  dishonour 

of  the  King,  tfie  tranfgreifion  of  his  law,  and   the 

great  damage  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  Whatfayeft 

•     thou  ?  Art  thou  guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  J" 

Then  faid  Mr.  Falfe-peace,  "Gentlemen,  and  you 

His  plea  -now  aPPoimed  t0  be  mY  judges>  ]  ac' 
V*       *  knowledge  that  my  name  is  Mr.  Peace  ; 

but  that  my  name  is  Falfe-peace  I  utterly  deny. 

He  denies  If  your  Honours   fhall  pleafe  to  fend 

his  name,    for  any  that  do  intimately  know   me, 

or  for  the  midwife  that  laid  my  mother  of  me,  or 

for  thegoffips  that  were  at  my  cbriftni>ng,they  will, 

any  or  all  of  them,  prove,  that  my  name   is  not 

Falfe-peace,  but  Peace.    Wherefore  I  cannot  plead 


The    HOLY      WAR*  167 

to  this  indictment,  forafmuch  as  my  name  is  not 
inferted  therein.  And  as  is  my  true  name,  fo  alfo 
are  my  conditions.  I  was  always  a  man  that  loved 
to  live  at  quiet  ;  and  what  I  loved  myfelf,  that  I 
thought  others  might  love  alfo  :  wherefore,whert 
I  law  any  of  my  neighbours  to  labour  under  a  dis- 
quieted mind,  1  endeavoured  to  help  them  what 
1  could  ;  and  inftances  of  this  good  temper  of 
mine  many  I  could  give  :  as, 

1.  When,  at  the  beginning,  our  Town  of  man- 
Pleads  his  foul  did  decline  the  ways  of  Shaddai, 
goodnefs.  they,  fome  of  them,  afterwards  began 
to  have  difqnieting  reflections  upon  themfelves 
for  what  they  had  done  ;  but  I,  as  oue  troubled 
to  fee  themdifquieted,  prefently  fought  out  means 
to  get  them  quiet  again. 

2.  When  the  ways  of  the  old  world,and  of  So- 
darn,  were  in  fafhion  ;  if  any  thing  happened  to 
moleft  thofe  that  were  for  the  cuftoms  of  the  pre? 
fent  times,  I  laboured  to  make  them  quiet  again, 
and  to  caufe  them  to  a&  without  moleftation. 

3.  To  come  nearer  home  :  When  the  wars  fell 
out  between  Shaddai  and  Diabolus,  if  at  any  time 
I  faw  any  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  afraid  of  deft  ruo» 
tion,  I  often  ufed.by  fome  way,  device,inventioo, 
or  other,  to  labour  to  bring  them  to  peace  againi 

Wherefore,  fince  I  have  been  always  a  man  oT 
fo  virtuous  a  temper,as  fome  fay  a  peace-maker  is  ;- 
and  if  a  peace-maker  be  fo  deferving  a  man  as  fome 
have  been  bold  to  atteft  he  is,  then  let  me,  Gen- 
tlemen, be  accounted  by  you,  who  have  a  great 
name  for  juftice  and  equity  in  manfoul,  for  a  man 
that  deferveth  not  this  inhumane  way  of  treat- 
jment,  but  liberty,  and  alio  a  licence  to  feck  da- 
mage of  thofe  that  have  been  my  accufers. 

Then  faid  the  Clerk,  "Crye^make  a  proclama* 
tion." 


168  Thb    HOLY    WAR. 

Cryer.  "O  yes!  Forafmuch  as  the  prifoner  at  the 
barhaih  denied  his  name  tobe  that  which  is  men- 
tioned in  the  indictment, the  Court  requireth,that 
if  there  be  any  in  this  place  that  can  give  informa- 
tion to  the  Court  of  the  original  and  right  name 
of  the  prifoner,  they  would  come  forth  and  give 
in  their  evidence  ;  for  the  prifoner  (lands  upon 
his  own  innocency." 

Then  came  two  into  theCourt,anddefired  that 
Two  wit-  they  might  have  leave  to  fpeak  what 
nejfes  come  they  knew  concerning  the  prifoner  at 
in  agaifjfl  the  bar  ;  the  name  of  the  one  was 
him.  Search-truth,    and   the  name  of  the 

other  Vouch-truth  :  fo  the  Court  demanded  of 
thefe  men  if  they  knew  the  prifener,  and  what 
they  could  fay  concerning  him  ?  for  he  ftands,faid 
they,  upon  his  own  vindication. 

Then  faid  Mr.  Search-truth,    my  Lord,  I 

Court,  Hold  ;  give  him  his  oath.  Then  they 
fware  him.     So  he  proceeded. 

Search.  My  Lord,  I  know  and  have  known  this 
man  from  a  child,  and  can  attefl  that  his  name  is 
Falfe-peace.  I  knew  his  father,  his  name  was  Mr. 
Flatterer  ;  and  his  mother.before  fhe  was  married, 
wascalled  by  the  name  of  Mr.Sooth-up  :  and  thefe 
two,  when  they  came  together,lived  not  long  with- 
out this  fon  ;  and,  when  he  was  born, they  called 
his  name  Falfe-peace.  I  was  his  play-fellow,  only 
I  was  fomewhat  older  than  he  ;  and,  when  his  mo- 
ther did.  ufe  to  call  him  home  from  his  play,fheufed 
to  fay, Falfe-peace, Falfe-peace,come  home  quickly, 
or  HI  fetch  you.  Yea,  I  knew  him  when  he 
fucked  ;  and  though  I  was  then  but  little,yet  I  can 
remember,  that  when  his  mother  did  ufe  to  fit  at 
the  door  with  him,  or  did  play  with  him  in  her 
arms,  <he  would  call  him  twenty  times  together, 
My  little  Falfe-peace.  my  pretty  Talfe-pe a ce,  and 


The    HOLY    WAR.  169 

O  my  fweet  rogue,  Falfe-peace  ;  and  again,  O  my 
little  bird,  Falfe-peace  ;  and  how  do  I  love  my 
child  !  The  goflips  alfoknow  it  is  thus,  though  he 
has  had  the  face  to  deny  it  in  open  court. 

Then  Mr.  Vouch-truth  was  called  upon  to  fpeak 
what  he  knew  of  him.     So  they  fware  him. 

Then  faid  Mr.  Vouch-truth  ;  My  Lord,  all  that 
the  former  witnefs  hath  faid  is  true  ;  his  name  is 
Falfe-peace,  the  fon  of  Mr.  Flatterer,  and  of  Mrs 
Sooth-up,  his  mother.  And  I  have,  in  former 
times,  feen  him  angry  with  thofe  that  have  called 
him  any  thing  elle  but  Falfe-peace  ;  for  he  would 
fay,  that  all  fuch  did  mock  and  nickname  him  -x 
but  this  was  in  the  time  when  Mr.  Falfe-peace 
was  a  great  man,  and  when  the  Diabolonians  were 
the  brave  men  in  manfoul. 

Court.  Gentlemen,  you  have  heard  what  thcfe 
two  men  have  fworn  againft  the  prifoner  at  the 
bar.  And  now,  Mr.  Falfe-peace,  to  you  :  Yotl 
have  denied  your  name  to  be  Falfe-peace,  yet  yoa 
fee  that  thcfe  honeft  men  have  fworn  that  this  is 
your  name.  As  to  your  plea,  in  that  you  are 
quite  befides  the  matter  of  your  indictment  ;  you 
are  not  by  it  charged  for  evil  doing,  becaufe  y  a 
are  a  man  of  peace,  or  a  peace-maker  among  y<i 
neighbours,  but  for  that  you  did  wickedly  and 
fatanically  bring,  keep,  and  hold,  the  town  oi 
manfoul,  both  under- its -apoftafy  from,  and  in  it: 
rebellion  againft,  its  King,  in  a  falfe,  lying,  and 
damnable  peace,  contrary  to  the  law  of  Sbaddaf, 
and  to  the  hazard  of  the  deftruction  of  the  then 
miferable  Town  of  manfoul.  All  that  you  h^ 
pleaded  for  yourfelf  is,  that  you  have  denied  your 
name,  &c.  but  here  you  fee  we  have  witnefles  to 
prove  that  you  are  the  man. 

For  the  peace  that  you  fo  much   boaft   of.  ma- 
king among  your  neighbours  ;  know,   that  peace 
P 


i7o  •  The  HOLY  WAR. 
that  is  not  a  companion  of  truth  and  holinefs,  but 
that  which  is  without  this  foundation,  is  grounded 
upon  a  lie,  and  is  both  deceitful  and  damnable, 
as  alio  the  great  Shaddai  hath  faid  :  thy  plea, 
therefore,has  not  delivered  thee  from  what  by  the, 
indictment  thou  art  charged  with,  but  rather  it 
'doth  fallen  all  upon  thee. 

But  thou  malt  have  very  fair  play  :  let  us  call 
thewitnefTes  that  are  toteitify  as  to  matter  of  fact, 
and  fee  what  they  have  to  fay  for  our  Lord  the 
King  againft  the  prifoner  at  the  bar. 

Clerk,  Mr.  Know-all,  what  fay  you  for  our 
Lord  the  King  againll  the  prifoner  at  the  bar  \ 

Know,  My  Lord,  this  man  hath,  for  a  long 
time,  made  it,  to  my  knowledge,  his  bufinefs  to 
keep  the  town  of  manfoul  in  a  finful  quietnefs  in 
the  midft  of  all  her  lewdnefs,  filthinefs,  and  tur- 
moils ;  and  hath  faid,  and  that  in  my  hearing, 
.  "Come,  come,  let  us  flee  from  all  trouble,on  what 
ground  foever  it  comes  ;  and  let  us  be  for'a  quiet 
and  peaceable  life,  though  it  wanteth  a  good  foun- 
dation." . 
Clerk,  Come,Mr.  Hate-lies, wli at  have  you  to  fay  ? 

Hate,  My  Lord,  I  have   heard   him  fay,  that 
peace,  though   in  a   way  of  unrighteoufnefs,  is 
.  better  than  trouble  with  truth. 

Clerk,  Where  did  you  hear  him  fay  this  ? 
J^^Hat-e.  I  heard  him  fay  it  in  Folly-yard,   at   the 
ho'ufe  of  one  Mr.  Simple,  next  door  to  the  lign  of 
the  Self-deceiver.     Yea,  be  hath  faid  this  to   my 
knowledge  twenty  times  in  that  place. 

Clerk.  We  may  fpare   further    witnefTes  ;  this 

idence  is  plain  and  full.     Set  him  by,  jailer,  and 

No-truth      fee  Mr.   No-truth  to   the  bajv    "Mr. 

pt  /;  the.    No-truth,  thou  art   here   indicted   by 

;  His    the    name   of  No-truth    (an  intruder 

lllhnent*  upon  the  Town  of  munfoul)   for  ( 


The  HOLY   WAR.  171 

thou  hail  always,  td  the  difhonour  of  Shaddai, 
and  the  endangering  of  the  utter  ruin  of  the  fa- 
mous Town  of  manfoul,  fet  thyfelf  to  deface  and 
utterly  to  fpoil  all  the  remainders  of  the  law  and 
image  of  Shaddai  that  have  been  found  in  man- 
foul,  after  her  deep  apoilafy  from  her  King  to 
Diabolus  the  envious  tyrant.  What  fayeft  thou  I 
Art  thou  guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  :" 
His  -plea.     No-tr.  Not  guilty,  my  Lord. 

Then  the  witneffes  were  called,  and  Mr.  Know- 
Tir-      m       all  did  firft  give  in   his   evidence    a- 
M        -gainit  him. 

Know.  My  Lord,  this  man  was  at  the  pulling 
down  of  the  image  of  Shaddai ;  yea,  this  is  he  that. 
did  it  with  his  own  hands  ;  I  myfelf  Hood  by  ai 
faw  him  do  it,  and  he  did  it  at  the  commandmc 
of  Diabolus.     Yea,  this  Mr.  No-truth   did   inc. 
than  this,  he  did  alfo  let  up  the  horned    image   of, 
the  bead  Diabolus  in  the  fame   place.     This  alfo 
is  he  that,  at  the  binding  of  Diabolus,did  rend  and  [' 
tear,  and  caufe  to  be  confumed,  all  that   he  courd\. 
of  the  remainders  of  the  law  of   the   King,   evea 
whatever  he  could  lay  his  hands  on  in  manfoul. 

Clerk.  Who  faw  him  do  this  befides  yourfelf  \ 

Hate.  I  did,  my  Lord,  apd   fo  did   many   mo: 
befides  3  for  this  was  not  done  by  fteahh,  or  in  a 
corner,  but  in  the  open  view  of  all :  yea,  he  cho 
himfelf  to  do  it  publickly,  for  he  delighted  in  d 
ing  of  it. 

Clerk.  Mx  No-truthjhow  could  you  have  rh.c 
face  to  plead  Not  guilty,  when  you  were  fo  mani- 
feflly  the  doer  of  all  this  wickednefs  ? 

No-tr.  Sir,  I  thought  I  muit  fay  fomething  ;  and . 
as  my  name  is,fo  I  fpeak  :  I  have  been  advanta^ 
thereby  before  now,  and  did  not   know   bur,    by 
fpeaking  no-truth,  I  might  have   reaped  the  fame 
benefit  now. 
V 


i72  The   HOLY    WAR. 

Clerk.  Set  him  by,  jailer,  and  fet  Mr.  Pitilefs  to 
Pitilefsfet  the  bar.  "Mr.  Pitilefs,  thou  art  here 
to  the  bar  :  indicted  by  the  name  of  Pitilefs  (an 
His  indici-  intruder  upon  the  town  of  manfoul) 
men!.  for  that  thou   didffc  moil   traiteroufly 

and  wickedly  flint  up  all  bowels  of  compaflion,and 
wouldft  not  fnffer  poor  manfoul  to  condole  her 
own  mifery,  when  me  had  apoftatifed  from  her 
rightful  King,  but  didft  evade,  and  at  all  times 
turn  her  mind  away  from  thole  thoughts  that  had 
\n  them  a  tendency  to  lead  her  to  repentance. 
What  fayed:  thou  to  this  indictment  ?  Guilty,  or 
net  guilty  l" 

Piti.  Not  guilty  of  pitilefnefs.  All  I  did  was  to 
His  plea  :  cheer  up,  according  to  my  name  ;  for 
He  denies  my  name  is  not  pitilefs,  but  Cheer-up  ; 
his  name,  and  1  could  not  abide  to  fee  manfoul  in- 
cline to  melancholy. 

Clerk.  How  !  do  you  deny  your  name,  and  fay, 
it  is  not  pitilefs,  but  Cheer-up  ?  Call  for  the  wit- 
nefTes.   What  fay  you,  the  witneffes,  to  this  plea  \ 

Know.  My  Lord,  his  name  is  Pitilefs  ;  fohe  hath 
writ  himfelf  in  all  papers  of  concern  wherein  he 
has  had  to  do.  But  thefe  Diabolonians  love  to 
counterfeit  their  names :  Mr.  Covctoufnefs covers 
himfelf  with  the  name  of  Good-hufbandry,  or  the 
like;  Mr.  Pride  can,  when  need  is,  call  himfelf 
Mr.  Neat,  Mr.  Handfome,  or  the  like  j  and  fo  of 
all  the  reft  of  them. 

Clerk.  Mr. Tell- true,  wnat  fay  you  ? 
Tell.  His  name  is  Pitilefs,my  Lord  ;  Ihaveknown 
him  from  a  child,  and  he  haih  done  all  that  wick- 
ednefs  whereof  he  ftands  charged   in  the  indi<ft- 

Wf:  but  there  is  a  company  of  them  thatare  not 
acquainted  with  rhe  danger  of  damnincr,therefore 
they  call  all  thofe  melancholy  that  have  ferious 
thoughts  ho w  that  ftate  fhould  be  fhunned  by  them, 


The   HOLV    WAR,  i>3 

Clerk.     Set  Mr.  Haughty  co  the  bar,  jailer. 

"Mr.  Haughty,  thou  art  here  indi&ed  by  the 
Haughty  name  of  Haughty  (an  intruder  upon  the 
fet  to  the  Town  of  manfoul)  for  that  thou  didil 
bar  :  moil  traiieroufly  and  devilifhly  teach 

His  indill-  the  Town  of  manfoul  to  carry  it  loftily 
ment.  and  floutly  againfl    the    fummons  that 

was  given  them  by  the  captains  of  the  King 
Shaddai.  Thou  didfl  alfo  teach  the  Towrf  of 
manfoul  to  fpeak  contemptuoufly  and  vilifyingly 
of  their  great  King  Shaddai  ;  and  didfl,  moreover, 
encourage,  both  by  words  and  examples,  manfoul 
to  take  up  arms  both  againfl  the  King  and  his 
Son  Emmanuel.  How  fayefl  thou  \  Arc  thou 
guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  ¥*■ 

Haugh.  Gentlemen,  I  have  always  been  a  man 
rr-  .r  of  courage  and  valour,  and  have  not 
*  '  ufed,  when  under  the  greatefl  cloud?, 
to  fneak  or  hang  down  the  head  like  a  bulruih  j 
nor  did  it  ?x  all  at  any  time  pleafe  me  to  fee  men. 
veil  their  bonnets  to  thofe  that  have  oppofed  them^ 
yea,  though  their  adverfaries  fcemed  to  have  ten 
times  the  advantage  of  them.  I  did  not  ufe  to 
confider  who  was  my  foe,  nor  what  the  caufe  was 
in  which  I  was  engaged  :  it  was  enough  to  me  if 
I  carried  it  bravely,  fought  like  a  man,  and  came' 
off  like  a  victor. 

Court.     Mr.  Haughty,  you  are  not  here  indictee? 

cri    ^  for  that  you  have  been  a  valiant  man, 

The  Court.  c       J  ,  n  v  . 

nor  for  your  courage  and  ltoutneis  iti 

times  of  diflrefs,  but  for  that  you  have   made  ufe 

of  this  your  pretended  valour  to  draw  the  Town  or 

manfoul  into  acts  of  rebellion,   both   againil 

great  Kin^,  and  Emmanuel  his  Son.      This  is 

crime,  and  the  thing  wherewith  thou  art  charged, 

in  and  by  the  indictment.     But   he  made  no 

i'wei  to  that. 

?3 


:/4  The  HOLY    WAR. 

Hpwt  when  the  Court  had  thus  far  proceeded 
againil  the  prifoners  at  the  bar,  then  they  put 
them  over  to  the  verdict  of  their  jury,  to  whom 
they  did  apply  themfelves  after  this  manner  : 

"  Gentlemen  of  the  jury,  you  have  been  here, 
The  Court  and  have  feen  thefe  men  ;  you  have 
to  the  5*7/ry.heard  their  indictments,  their  pleas, 
and  what  the  witneffes  have  teilified  againil  them  : 
The  Jury's  Now,  what  remains  is,  that  you  do 
charge.  forthwith  withdrawyourfelvestofome 
place,  where,without  confuflon,  you  may  conilder 
of  what  verdict,  it!  a  way  of  truch  and  righteouP 
nefs,  you  ought  to  bring  in  for  the  King  againil 
them  ;  and  fo  bring  it  in  accordingly." 

Then  the  jury,i/2r.  Mr.  Belief,Mr.  True-heart, 
They  with-  Mr.  Upright,  Mr.  Hate-bad, Mr.  Love- 
dreiv  them-  good,  Mr.  See-Truth,  Mr.  Heavenly- 
fehes:  mind,  Mr.  Moderate,  Mr.  Thankful, 
Mr.  Humble,  Mr.  Good-work,  and  Mr.  Zcal-for- 
'God,  withdrew  themfelves,  in  order  to  their  work. 
Now,  when  they  were  fhut  up  by  themfelves, 
they  fell  of  difcourfe  among  themfelves,  in  order 
to  the  drawing  up  of  their  verdict. 

And  thus  Mr.  Belief,  for  he  was  their  foreman, 
Conference    began  :   "Gentlemen, qnoth  he,for  the 

zsng  nkn,  the  prifoners  at  the  bar,   for  my 

fjhemfi/ves ; pgn  I  believe  that  they  all  deferve 
death.  Very  right,  faid  Mr.  True-heart  ;  I  am 
Wholly  of  your  opinion.  O  what  a  m.rcy  is  it, 
laid  Mr.  Hate.-bad,  that  fuch  villains  as  thefe  are 
apprehended  !  Ay,  ay,  faid  Mr.  Love-good, this  is 
one  of  thejoyfullelt  days  that  ever  I  faw  in  my  life. 
Then  faid  Mr.  See-trurh,  Ikn  w  that,  if  we  judpre 
them  to  death,  our  verdict  ihafl  (land  before  Shad- 
dai  himfelf.  Nor  do  I  at  all  queftion  it,  faid  Mr. 
Heavenly-mind  ;  he  fiid  moreover,  when  all  fuch 
beafts  as  thefe  are  edit   out  of  manfouJ,    what  a 


The     HOLY    WAR.  i?s 

goodly  town  will  it  be  then  ?  Then  faid  Mr.  Mo- 
derate, It  is  not  my  manner  to  pafs  my  judgment 
with  rafhnefs  ;  but  for  thefe,  their  crimes  are  fo 
notorious,  and  the  witneifes  fo  palpable,  that  that 
man  inuit  be  wilfully  blind  who  faith  the  prifoners 
ought  not  tcdie,  Bfeffed  be  God,  faid  Mr.  Thank- 
ful, that  the  traitors  are  in  fafe  cuitody.  And  I 
join  with  you  in  this,  upon  my  bare  knees,  faid 
Mr.  Humble.  I  am  glad  alio,  faid  Mr.  Goodwork. 
Then  faid  the  war-ma^  and  true-hearted  Mr.  Zeal- 
for-God,  Cutthtin  off,  they  have  been  the  plague, 
and  have  fought  the  deftruction,  %f  man  foul." 
They  are  Thus  therefore,  being  all  agreed  in 
agreed  :  their  verdict,  they  come  inltantly  to 
the  court. 

Clerk,  "Gentlemen  of  the  jury,  anfwer  all  to 
your  names  :  Mr.  Belief,  one  ;  Mr.  True-heart, 
two  ;  Mr.  Upright,  three  ;  Mr.  Hate-bad,  four  \ 
Mr.  Love-good,  five  ;  Mr.  See-truth,  fix  ;  Mr. 
Heavenly-mind,  feven  ;  Mr.  Moderate,  eight  ; 
M\\  Thankful,  nine  ;  Mr.  Humble,  ten  ;  Mr.' 
Good-work,  eleven"  ;  and  Mr.  Zed-for-God, 
twelve.  Good  men  and  true,  ftand  together  in 
your  Verdict.     Are  you  all  agreed  .?" 

Jury.     Yes,  my  Lord. 

Clerk.     Who  mall  fpeak  for  you  ? 

Jury.     Our  Foreman.  , 

C/e  k.  "You  the  Gentlemen  of  the  jury,  being 
impannelled  for  our  Lord  the  King,  to  ferve  heie. 
in  a  matter  of  life  and  death,  have  heard  the  t rids 
of  each  of  thefe  men  the  prifoners  at  the  b.r  : 
What  fay  you,  are  they  guilty  of  that  and  thofe- 
crimes  for  which  they  Hand  here  indided,  or  *re 
they  not  guilty  :" 

Their  ver-  Foreman.     Guilty,  my  Lord. 
dtft.  Clerk,     Look  to  your  prifoners,  jailer, 

This  was  done  in  the  morning,  and  in  the  after-. 


i76  The    HOL  Y     WAR. 

noon  they  received  the  fentence  of  death  accord- 
ing to  the  law. 

Thejaiier,  therefore,  having  received  fuch  a 
charge,  put  them  all  in  the  inward  prifon,  to  pre- 
ferve  them  there  till  the  day  of  execution,  which 
was  to  be  the  next  day  in  the  morning. 

But  now  to  fee  how  it  happened,  one  of  the  pri- 
Incredulity  foners,  Incredulity  by  name, in  the  in- 
breaks  pri-  terim  betwixt  the  fentence  and  time  of 
fori.  execution,  brake*f>rifon,   and  made  his 

efcape,  and  gets  him  away  quite  out  of  the  town 
of  manfoul,  an  J  lay  lurking  in  fuch  places  and 
holes  as  he  might,  until  he  lliould  again  have  op- 
portunity to  do  the  Town  manfonl  mifchief  for 
their  thus  handling  of  him  as  they  did. 

Now,  when  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailer  perceived 
that  he  had  loft  his  prifon er,  he  was  in  a  heavy  ta- 
king, becaufe  he,  that  prifoner  we  fpeak  of,  was 
the  very  word  of  all  the  gang  :  wherefore,  nrft  he 
goes  and  acquaints  my  Lord  Mayor,Mr.  Recorder, 
and  my  Lord  Willbewill,  with  the  matter,  and  to 
get  of  them  an  order  to  make  fearch  for  him 
throughout  the  town  of  manfoul.  So  an  order 
No  Incre-  he  got,  and  fearch  was  made,  but  no 
dulity  in  fuch  man  could  be  found  in  all  the 
Manfoul :     Town  of  manfoul. 

All  that  could  be  gathered  was,  that  he  had 
lurked  a  while  about  the  outfide  of  the  Town, 
and  that  here  and  there  one  or  other  had  a  glimpfe 
of  him  as  he  did  make  his  efcape  out  of  manfoul  ; 
one  or  two  alfo  did  affirm,  that  they  fa w  him  with- 
out the  Town  going  apace  quite  over  the  plain. 
Now,  when  he  was  quite  gone,  it  was  affirmed  by 
one  Mr.  Did-fee,  that  he  ranged  all  over  dry  places, 
He  is  cone  till  he  met  with  Diabolus  his  friend  ; 
toDiabo-  and  where  mould  they  meet  one  ano- 
hs.  ther  but juft  uponHvllgate-hi. 


The    HOLY    WAR,  177 

But,  oh,  what  a  lamentable  flory  did  the  old 
gentleman  tell  to  Diabolus  concerning  what  fad 
alteration  Emmanuel  had  made  in  manfoul  ! 

As  flrft,  how  manfoul  had,  after  fome   delays, 
He  tells        received  a  general  pardon  at  the  hands 
Diabolus       of  Emmanuel ;  and  that  they  had  in- 
ivbat  Em-     vited  him  into  the  Town  ;  and   that 
mantie I  now  they  had  given  him  the  Caftle  for  his 
is  doing  in  polfeffion.     He  faid,   moreover,   that 
Manfoul.      they  had  called  his  foldiers  into   the 
Town,  coveted  who  fhould  quarter   the   meft  of 
them  ;  they  alfo  entertained  him  with  the  timbrel, 
fong,  and  dance.     But  that,  faid  Incredulity,  that 
is  the  forcil  vexation   to  me,  that  he  hath  pulled 
down,  O  father,  thy  image,  and  fet  up  his  own  ; 
pulled  down  thy  officers,  and  fct  np  his  own.  Yea, 
and  Willbewill,  that  rebel,  who,  one  would  have 
thought,  mould  never  have  turned  from  us,  he   is 
now  in  as  great  favour  with  Emmanuel  as  ever  he 
was  with  thee.     But,  befides  all  this,  this  Willbe- 
will has  received  a  fpecial  commiilionfrom  his  Maf-' 
ter  to  fearch  for,  to  apprehend,   and   to   put   to 
death,  all,  and  all  manner  of  Diabolonians  that  he 
fhall  find  in  manfoul  :  yea,   and  this   Willbewill 
has  taken  and  committed  to  prifon  already   eight 
of  my  Lord's  mofttrufty  friends  inmanfttul.  Nay, 
furtljp-,  my  Lord,  with  grief  I  fpeak  it,  they  have 
been  all  arraigned,  condemned,  and  Ihavenodoubt 
before  this  they  are  executed  in  manfoul.     I  told 
my  Lord  of  eight,  and  myfelf  was  the  ninth,  who 
ihould  afTuredly  have  drunk  of  the  fame  cup,   but 
that,  through  craft,  I,  as  thou   feefl,   have   made 
mine  efcape  from  them. 

When  Diabolus  hacl heard  thislamentableftory, 
Diabolus  he  yelled,  and  fnufFed  up  the  wind  like 
yells  at  this  a  dragon,  and  made  the  fky  to  look 
nevjs.  dark  with  his  roaring  ;  he  alfo   fware    . 


778  The    HOLY    WAR. 

that  he  woi;ld  try  to  be  revenged  on  manfoul  for 
.  this.  So  ihey,  both  he  and  his  old  friend  Incre- 
dulity, c  included  to  enter  into  great  confutation, 
how  r'.ey  might  get  to  the  Town  of  manfoul  again. 
Is  ow, before  this  time  the  day  was  come  in  which 
the  prifoners  in  manfoul  were  to  be  executed.  So 
Rom.  viii.  they  were  brought  to  the  crofs,  and 
13.  Sc  vi.  that  by  manfoul,  in  mod  folemn  man- 
12,13,14.  ner  :  for  the  Prince  faid,  that  this  mould 
be  done  by  the  hand  of  the  Town  of  manfoul, that 
I  may  fee,  faid  he,  the  forwardnefs  of  my  now-re- 
deemed manfoul  to  keep  my  word,  and  to  do  my 
q  j  commandments  ;  and  that  I  may  blefs* 

'•■.».■*'   manfoul  in  doing  this  deed.     Proof  of 
fincerity  pleafes  me  well  ;  let   manfoul  therefore 
.     ijrft.  lay  their  hands  upon   thefe   Diabolonians  to 

deftroy  them. 

.  .    So  the  Town  of  manfoul  flew  them,  according  to 

;     the  word  of  their  Prince  :  but,  when  the  prifoners 

.'. ;  were  brought  to  the  crofs  to  die,  you  can  hardly 

:'    believe  what  rroublefome  work  manfoul  had  of  it 

to  put  the  Diabolonians  to  death;  for   the  men 

-'^knowing  that  they  muft  die,and  every  one  of  them 

*'    having  an  implacable    enmity   in   their  heart   to 

•'  manfoul,  what  did  they  but  took  courage   at   the 

., -crofs,  and  there  refilled  the  men  of  the  Town  of 

•"*  .manfoul  ?  Wherefore  the  men  of  manfoulj^erc 

';;•  "The  ajfifl-    forced  to  cry  out  for  help  to  the  cap- 

.'*  arice  of       tains  and  men  of  war.     Now  the  great 

!  ••  mare  g/w^.Shaddai  had  a  fecretary  in  the  Town, 

jandhe  was  a  great  lover  of  the  men  of  manfoul, 

.    and  he  was  at  the  place  of  execution  alfo  ;  fo  he, 

hearing  the  men  of  manfoul  cry   out  againft   the 

-  Execution  ffcrugglings  and   unrulihefs  of  the  pri- 

done,  foners,   rofe   .up    from   his   place,  and 

Rom.  viii.  came    and    put    his    hands    upon    the 

jV,T&  hands   of  the  men   of    manfo.ul .'-.'•  So 


The   HOLY    WAR.  179 

thy  crucified  the  Diabolonians,  that  hiul  been  a 
plague,  a  grief,  and  an  offence  to  the  Town  of 
man  foul. 

Now,  when  this  good  work  was  done,  the  Prince 
The  Prince  came  down  to  fee,toviiit,and  to  fpeak 
comes  down  comfortably  to,  the  men  of  manjoul, 
to  congratu-  and  to  ilrengthen  their  hands  in  fuch 
late  them  :  work.  And  he  laid  to  them,  that  by 
this  act  of  theirs  he  had  proved  them,  and  found 
them  to  be  lovers  of  his  perfon,  obfervers  of  his 
laws,  and  fuch  as  had  alfo  refpeel  to  his  honour. 
He  faid  moreover  (to  fhew  them  that  they  by  this 
He  promt fes  mould  not  be  lolers,  nor  their  Town 
them  a  new  weakened  by  the  lofs  of  them)  that  he 
captain.  would  make  them  another  Captain, and 
that  of  one  of  themfelves  ;  and  that  this  Captain 
fhould  be  the  ruler  of  a  thouland,for  the  good  and 
benefit   of  the  now-fiourifhing  Town   of  man- 

\  foul. 

So  he  called  one  to  him,  whofe  name  was  Wait* 
ing,  and  bid  him  go  quickly  up  to  the  Caitle-gate, 
Experience  and  inquire  for  one  Mr.  Experience, 
mSfl  be  the  that  waited  upon  that  noble  captain, 
new  cap-  the  Captain  Credence,  and  bid  hini. 
tain  :  come  hither  to  me.     So  the  meffenger. 

that  waited  upon  the  good  Prince  Emmanuel  went,  • 
and  faid  as  he  was  commanded.     Now,  the  young' 

:  gentleman  was  waiting  to  fee  the  captain  train  aiyd: . 

I  mutter  his  men  in  the  Caftle-yard.     Then  faid  Mr.  ■ 

I  Waiting  to  him,  Sir,  the  Prince  would  that   you  . 

>  fhould  come  down  to  his  Highnefs  forthwith.     So: 
he  brought  him  down  to  Emmanuel,  and  he  came 
His  quali-  and  made  obeifance  before  him.     Now  > 
fications.    the  men  of  the  Town  knew  Mr.  Expe-'1 
rience  well,  for  he  was  born  and  bred  in  manioul .;  ' 
they  alfq  knew  him  tobe  a  man  of  conduct,  of  va- 
Iqut,  and  a  prudent  perfon  in  matters ;  he  was  z\- 


180  The   HOLY   WAR. 

fo  a  comt'y  perfon,  Well  fpoken',  and  very  fuccefs- 

ful  in  his  undertakings. 

Wherefore  the  hearts  of  the  townfmen  were 
Manfuid  tranfported  with  joy,  when  they  faw 
takes  it  that  the  Prince  himfelf  was  fo  taken  with 
wM  Mr.  Experience,  that  he  would  needs 
make  him  captain  over  a  band  of  men. 

So,with  one confent,they  bowed  theknee  before 
.Emmanuel,  and  with  a  fhout  faid,  Let  Emmanuel 
The  tiring  live  for  ever.  Then  faid  the  Prince 
toidto  Mr,  to  the  young  gentleman,  whofe  name 
Experience:  was  Mr.  Experience,  I  have  thought 
good  to  confer  upon  thee  a  place  of  truft  and  ho- 
nour in  this  my  town  of  manfoul  ;  (then  the 
young  man  bowed  his  head  and  worfhipped)  it  is, 
faid  Emmanuel,  that  thou  mouldfl  be  a  captain,  a 
captain  over  a  thoufand  men  in  my  beloved  Town 
of  manfoul.  Then  faid  the  captain,  Let  the  King 
live.  So  the  Prince  gave  out  orders  forthwith  to 
the  King's  fecretary,  that  he  fhould  draw  up  for 
His  com-  Mr.  Experience  a  commi/Iion  to  make 
mijjion  fent  him  a  captain  over  a  thoufand  men,  ; 
him:  and  let  it  be  brought  tome,   faid   he, 

that  I  may  let  to  my  feal.  So  it  was  done  as  it 
was  commanded  ;  the  commi/Iion  was  drawn  up, 
brought  to  Emmanuel,  and  he  fet  his  feal  thereto. 
Then,  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Waiting,  he  fent  it  a- 
way  to  the  Captain. 

Now,  fo  foon  as  the  Captain  had  received  his 
commifllon,  he  foundeth  his  trumpet  for  volun- 
teers, and  young  men  come  to  him  apace  ;  yea,the 
greateil:  and  chiefefl  men  in  the  Town  fent  their 
Tons  to  be  lifted  under  his  command.  Thus  Cap- 
.His  under-  tain  Experience  came  under  command 
officers.  to  Emmanuel,  for  the  good  of  the 
Town  of  manfoul.  He  had  for  his  lieutenant  one 
Mr.  Skilful,  and  for  his  cornet  one  Mr.  Memory. 


The  HOLY    WAR.  181 

His  under-officers  I  need  ffot:  ..name.  His  colours 
were  the  white  colours  for  the  Town  of  manfoul; 
i  Sam.  xvii.  and  his  fcutcheon  was  the  dead  lion, 
36,  37.  and  the  dea^d  bear.     So   the  Prince 

returned  to  his  Royal  palace  again. 

Now,  when  he  was  returned  thither,  the  elders 
The  elders  of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  to  wit,  the 
of  Manfoul  Lord  Mayor,  the  Recorder,  and  the 
congratu-  Lord  Willbevvil],  went  to  congratu- 
late  him.  late  him,  and  in  fpecial  way  to  thank 
him  for  his  love,  care,  and  the  tender  companion 
which  he  mewed  to  his  ever-obliged  Town  of 
manfoul.  So  after  a  while,  and  fome  fweet  com- 
munion betwixt  them,  the  townfmen,  having  fb- 
lemnly  ended  their  ceremony,  returned  to  their 
place  again. 

Emmanuel  alfo  at  this  time  appointed  them  a 
Emmanuel  day  wherein  he  would  renew  their 
renews  their  charter,yea,wherein  he  would  renew 
charter.  and  enlarge  it, mending  feveral  faults 

Heb.  viii.  therein, that  manfoul's  yoke  might  bfc 
7,#.  yet  more  eafy.  And  this  he  did,witrw 

mat.  xi.  30.  out  any  defire  of  theirs,  even  of  his 
own  franknefs,  and  noble  mind.  So,when  he  had 
fent  for  and  feen  their  old  one,  he  laid  it  by,  and./ 
faid,  Now  that  which  decayeth  and  waxeth  old  is. 
ready  tovanifhaway.  Hefaid,moreover,theTown 
of  manfoul  mail  have  another,  a  better,  a  new 
one,  more  ileady  and  firm  by  far.  An  epitome: 
whereof  take  as  follows. 

"Emmanuel,  Prince  of  peace,  and  a  great  lover 
Epitome  of  of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  1  do,  in  the* 
nezv  charter,  name  of  my  Father,  an4  of  mine  own 
Heb.vm.i 2.  clemency,  give,  grant,  and  bequeath, 
John  xvii.  to  my  beloved  Town  of  manfoul, 
3,  14.  "Firil,  Free,    full,    and    everlaiting1 

1  Pef.  i,  4.  •  forgivenefs  of  all  wrongs,  injurics,aml 


iS2  The   HOLY    WAR. 

2  Cor*  vii.  i.  offences,  done  by  them    againfr.  my 

Jobni.  \6.     father,     me,     their   neighbour,    or 

themfelvcs. 

"Secondly,  I  do  give  them  the  holy  law,  and 
«w .;    .      .     my  teitament,    with   all  that  therein 

fohn  1.   10.     .    J  „    .        ,      r         lL    •  ,    n. 

J  is     container,   for   their    everlaihng 

comfort  and  confolation. 

"Thirdly,  I  do  alfo  give  them  a  portion  of  the 
felf-fame  grace  and  gocdnefs  that  dwells  in  my 
Father's  heart  and  mine. 

"Fourthly,  I  do  give,  grant,  and  beftow  upon 
them  freely-,  the  world,  and  what  is  therein  for 
their  good  ;  and  they  fliall  have  that  power  over 
I  Cor.  iii.  them  as  mall  Hand  with  the  honour 
21,  22.  of  my  Father,  my  -glory,  and  their 
comfort  :  yea,  I  grant  them  the  benefits  of  life 
and  death,  and  of  things  prefent,  and  of  things  to 
come.  This  priviledge  no  other  city,  town,  or 
corporation  ihall  have,  but  my  manfoul  only. 

"Fifthly,  I  do  give  and  grant  them  leave  and 
Heb.  x.  19,  free  accefs  to  me  in  my  palace,  at  all 
Co.  feafons  f  to  my  palace  above  or  below) 

there  to  make  known  their  wants  tome  ;  and  I  give 
them,  moreover,  a  promife,that  I  will 


'  hear  and  redrefs  all  their  grievances, 

ahly,  I  do  give,  grant   to,    and  invefl   the 

\-  JVo  r.uvi  to  Town  of  manfoul  with  full  power  and 

kil-  authority,  to  feek  oqf,   take,    inflave, 

tg  of  fin.  and   deitroy    all,   and   all   manner   of 

Diabolonians,  that  at  any  time,  from  whence  fo- 

e>,  ihall  be  found  (haggling    in   or    about   the 

Town  of  manfoul. 

•"Seven tbty,  I  do  further  grant  to   my  beloved 

\    fio  lufl  has  Town  of  manfoul,  that  they  /hall  have 

any  grant     authority,  not  to  fuifer  any    foreigner 

by  Chrijij     or  ftrangcr,  or   their  fcecj,  to  be  free 

V'C.  in  and  of  the  bleffedTown/ofm'acfoul, 


The    HOLY    WAR.  183 

nor  to  fhare  in  the  excellent  priviledges  thereof; 
but  that  all  the  grants,  priviledges,and  immunites, 
that  I  bellow  upon  the  famous  town  of  manfoul 
mall  be  for  thofe  the  old  natives,  and  true  inhabi- 
tants thereof, to  them  I  fay,and  to  their  right  feed 
Epb.  iv.  22.  after  them  ;  but  all  Diabolonians,  of 
Col.  iii.  5.  what  fort,  birth, country,or  kingdom 
foever,  ihall  be  debarred  a  mare  therein." 

So,  when  the  Town  of  manfoul  had  received  at 
the  hand  of  Emmanuel,  their  gracious  charter, 
(which  in  itfelf  is  infinitely  more  large  than  by  this 
lean  epitome  is  fet  before  you)  they  carried  it  to 
2  Cor.  iii.  3.  Audience,thatis,to  the  Market-place, 
^^•xxxi.33.  and  there  Mr. Recorder  read  it  in  the 
Heb.  viii.io.  prefence  of  all  the  people.  This 
Their  char-  being  done,  it  was  had  back  to  the 
ter  fet  upon  Cart le-gates,and  [here  fai  rly  engraven 
their  CajUe  upon  the  doors  thereof,  and  laid,  hi 
gates.  letters  of  gold,  to  the  end  that    the 

Town  of  manfoul,  with   all   the   people   thereof, 
might  have  it  always  in  their  view,  or  might   go* 
where  they  might  fee  what  a  bleffed  freedom  the irt 
Prince  had  bellowed  upon  them,    that  their 
might  be  increafed  in  themfelves,  and   their  I 
renewed'  to  their  great  and  good  Emmanuel. 

But  what  joy,  what  comfort,  what  confolaii 
Joy  renezu-th'mk  you,  did  now  poficfs   the!   be:. 
ed  in  man-  of  the  men  of  manfoul  i  The  bells  r'ihgf. 
foul.  ed,  the  mtniftrels  played,    the   people 

danced,  the  Captains  fhouted,  the  colours  wn 
in  the  wind,,and  the  lllver  trumpets  founded,-,  and- 
the  Diabolonians  now   were  jglad   to    hicle   their 
heads,  for  they  looked  like  them  that   had   heert 
long  dead. 

When  this  was  over,  the  Prince  fen t  again  for 
the  eiders  of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and  commu- 
ned with  them  about  a  miniflry,  that  he  intended- 


184  The    HOLY    WAR, 

to  eftablifli  among  them  ;  fuch  a  miniftry  that 
might  open  unto  them,  and  that  might  inftrucr 
them  in,  the  things  that  did  concern  their  prefent 
and  future  ft ate. 

For,  faid  he,  you  of  yourfelves,  without  you 
Jer.x.  23. have  teachers  and  guides,  will  not  be 
1  Cor.  ii.  able  to  know,  and. if  not  to  know,to  be 
14.  fure  not  to  do,  the  will  of  my  Father. 

At  this  news,  when  the  elders  of  manfoul 
The  com- brought  it  to  the  people,  the  whole 
mon  good  Town  came  running  together  (for  it 
thoughts,  pleafed  them  well,  as  whatever  the 
Prince  now  did  pleafed  thepeople)and  all  with  one 
confent  implored  his  Majefty,that  he  would  forth- 
with eftablifli  fuchaminiltry  among  them  as  might 
teach  them  both  law  and  judgment,  ftatute  and 
commandment  ;  that  they  might  bedocumentedin 
,  all  good  and  wholefonie  things.  So  he  told  them, 
that  Jie  would  grant  them  their  requefts,  and 
would  eftablifli  two  among  them,  one  that  was  of 

Father's  court,  and  one  that  was  a  native  of 
.111  foul. 

He  that  is  from  the  Court,  faid  he,  is   a  perfon 

of  no  lefs  quality  and  dignity  t,han  is 

my  Father  and  I  ;  and  he  istheLqpii 

'    i.  21.  chief  Secretary  ofmy  Father's  houfe; 

.  \\  ii.  10.  for  he  is,  and  always    has   been,   the 

1.      chief  dictator  of   my   Father's    laws, 

.  v.  7.  a  perfon  altogether  well-fkilled  in  all 

fteries,  and  knowledge  of  myfteries,  as  is  my 
rather,  or  as  myfelf  is.  Indeed  he  is  one  with  us 
hi  nature,  and  alfo  as  to  loving  of,  and  being 
faithful  to,  and  in,  the  eternal  concerns  of  the 
Town  of  manfoul. 

And  this  is  he,  faid  the  Prince,,  that  muft  be 
your  chief  teacher  ;  for  it  is  .he,  and  he  only, 
that  can  teach  you  clearly  in  all  high   and  fuper- 


The    HOLY      WAR.  185 

natural  things.  He  and  he  only  it  is  that  knows 
the  ways  and  methods  of  my  Father  at  Court  ; 
nor  can  any  like  him  Jhew  how  the  heart  of  my 
Father  is  at  all  times,  in  all  things,  upon  all  00 
cafions,  towards  manfoul.  (For  as  no  man  knows 
the  things  of  a  man,  but  the  fpirit  of  a  man  which 
John  xiv.  is  in  him  ;  fo  the  things  of  my  Father 
26.  &  xvi.  knows  no  man,  but  this  his  high  an 4 
13. 1.  John  mighty  Secretary.)  Nor  can  any  (as 
ii.  27.  he)  tell  manfoul  how  and  what   they 

/hall  do  to  keep  themfelves  in  the  love. -off 
my  Father.  He  alfo  it  is  that  can  bring  loft 
things  to  your  remembrance,  and  that  can  tell 
you  things  to  come.  This  teacher,  therefore, 
muft  of  necefiity  have  the  pre-eminence  (both  in 
your  affections  and  judgment)  before  your  other 
teacher  ;  his  pefonal  dignity,  the  excellency  of 
Rom.  viii.  his  teaching,  alfo  the  great  dexterity  . 
26.  that  he  hath  to  help  you  to  make   and  -: 

draw  up  petitions   to  my  Father  for   your   help, '/ 
and  to  his  pleafing,  muft  lay  obligations  upon  you 
to  love  him,  fear  him,  and  to  take  heed  thai  you  ■ 
grieve  him  not* 

This  perfon  can  put  life  and  vigour  into  all  he  J 
A8s  xxi.      fays  ;  yea,  and  can  alfo   put   it   into  ;: 

10.  11.         your  heart     This  perfon   can   nuke,.' 
Jude,  v.  20.  leers  of  you,  and  can  make   you   teU;  ' 
Epb.  vi.  18.   what  mall  be  hereafter,  .  By  this  per-  ". 
fon  you  muft  frame  all  your  petitions  t;omy  Father 
and  me  ;  and,  without  his  advice  and  eounfel  firft 
obtained,  let  nothing  enter   into  the  Town   or 
Caftle  of  manfoul, for  that  may  difguft  and  grieve  : 
this  noble  perfon. 

Take  heed,  I  fay,  that  you  do  not   grieve  this 
Rev.  ii,  7.  rninifter  ;  for,  if  you  doy  he  may  fight 

11.  17.29.  againft  you  :  and,  mould   he   once   bo 
BphAvl^o. moved  by  you  to  let  himfeif  againft  • 

0.3 


1 86  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Mat.  xxvi.  you  in  battle-array,  that  will   diftrefs 
53.  you    more    than    if    twelve    legions 

ihoukl  from  my  Father's  Court  be  fent  to  make 
war  upon  you. 

But,  as  I  faid,  if  you  fhall  hearken  unto  him, 
and  love  him;  if  you  mail  devote  yourlclves  to  his 
teaching,  and  fliall  feek  to  have  converfe,  and  to 
maintain  communion,  with  him,  you  fliall  find 
him  ten  times  better  than  is  the  whole  world  to 
2  Cor.  xiii.  any  ;  yea,  he  will  flied  abroad  the  love 
14.  Rom.  of  my  Father  in' your  hearts,  and 
v.  5.  man  foul  will  be   the   wifeft   and  moil 

blefTed  of  all  people. 

Then  did  the  Prince  call  unto  him  the  old  Gen- 
Confoience    tleman,  who  afore  had  been  the  Re- 

de  a  mi-  corder  of  man  foul,  Mr.  Confcience  by 
tiifter  :         name,  and  told  him,  That   forafmuch 

he  was  well  {killed  in  the  law  and  government 
of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and  was  alfo  well  fpoken, 

I  could  pertinently  deliver  to  them  his  mailer's 

1  in -all  rerrene  and  domeftic  matters,  therefore 
>:d  alio  make  him  a  minifter  for,  in,  and  to, 

goodly  Town  of  manfoul,  in  all  thelaws,itatutes, 

-.     .  and  judgments,  of  the  famous  Town 

*  of  manfoul.     And  thou  muft  (faid  the 

ace)  confine  thyfelf  to  the  teaching  of  moral 

virtues,  to  civil  and  natural  duties  ;  but  thou  muft 

•jio:  attempt  to  prefume  to  be  a  rcvealer  of  thole 

Yj.  .        high  and  fupernatural  myfteries  that 

Jrits  caution :      fe,  if-      1     u   r         rci    ji  • 

are  kept  dole  in  the  bolom  ot  Shaddai 

hiy  Father  :  for  thofe  things  know  no  man,nor  can 

any  reveal  them,  but  my  Father's  Secretary  only. 

Thou  art  a  native  of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  but 

the  Lord  Secretary  is  a  native  with  my  Father   ; 

wherefore,  as  thou  haft  knowledge  of  the  laws  and 

cuftoms  ofthe  Corporation,  fo  he  of  the. things  and 

will  of  my  Father. 


The    HOLY   WAR.  187 

\Vhereforc,oh,Mr.  Conference,  although  I  have 
made  thee  a  miniirer  and  a  preacher  to  the  Town 
of  manfoul,  yet  as  to  the  things  which  the  Lord 
Secretary  knoweth,arid  ihall  teach  to  this  people, 
there  thou  mult  be  his  fcholar  and  a  learner,  even 
as  the  reft  of  manfoul  are. 

Thou  mutt  therefore,  in  all  high  and  fuperna- 
~  ,  ..  R  tural  things,  go  to  him  for  informa- 
/'*xxxn.H.tion   and  know]ec]ge   ;  for,  though 

there  be  a  fpirit  in  man,  this  perfon's  infpiration 
mull  give  him  underflanding.  Wherefore,  oh, 
thou  Mr.  Recorder,  keep  low  and  be  humble,  and 
remember  that  the  Diabolonians  that  kept  not 
their  firft  charge,  but  left  their  own  flanding,  are 
now  made  prifoners  in  the  Pit  5  be  therefore  con- 
tent with  thy  ftation. 

I  have  made  thee  my  Father's  vicegerent  on- 
earth,  in  fuch  things  of  which  I  have  made  men- 
Tj-    .  tion  before  :  and  thou, take  thou  power 

"  tS]\l  r  '/•  t0  teacn  tnem  t0  nianibul,  yea,  and  to 
j         imp0fe  them  with  whips  and  chaftife- 
ments,  if  they  ihall  not  willingly   hearken   to  dor 
thy  commandments. 

And,  Mr.  Recorder,  becaufe  thou  art  old,  and 
Tj'    j- ,  through  many  abufes   made    feeble   5 

f'  therefore  I  give  thee  leave  and  licence. 
to  go  when  thou  wilt  to  my  fountain,  my  conduit,, 
and  there  to  drink  freely  of  the  blood  of  my  grape; 
j,  j  rr  1  for  my  conduit  doth  always  run  wine; 
ix    \a  Thus  doing,thou  lhalt  diive  from  thy 

'  *    :  heart  and  ftomach  all  foul,  grofs,  and 

hurtful  humours  ;  it  will  alfo  lighten  thine  eyes, 
and  willftrengthcn  rhy  memory  for  the  reception 
and  keeping  of  all  that  the  King's  moft  noble  Se- 
cretary teachcth. 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  put  Mr.  Recorder: 
(that  once  fo  was)  into  the  place  and  office  of  a 


iS8  The   HOL  Y    WAR. 

minifter  to  manfoul,  and  the  man  had  thankfully 
accepted  thereof,  then  did  Emmanuel  addrefs  him- 
felf  in  a  particular  fpeech  to  the  townfmen  them- 
felves  : 

"Behold,"  faid  the  Prince  to  manfoul,  "my  love 
The  Prince's  and  care  towards  you.  I  have  added 
fpeech  to  to  all  that  is  paft  this  mercy,  to  ap- 
Manfjid  :  point  you  preachers  :  the  molt  noble 
Secretary  to  teach  you  in  all  high  and  fublime 
myfteries,  and  this  gentleman  (pointing  to  Mr, 
Conscience)  is  to  teach  you  in  all  things  human 
and  dome-flic,  for  therein  lyeth  his  work.  He  is 
not,  by  what  I  have  faid,  debarred  of  telling  to 
manfoul  any  thing  that  hehath  heard  and  received 
at  the  mouth  o!*the  Lord  high  Secretary  ;  only  he 
mall  not  attempt,  or  prefume  to  pretend,  to  be  a 
revealer  of  thofe  high  myfteries  himfelf ;  for  the 
breaking  of  them  up,  and  thedifcovery  of  them  to 
manfoul,  lyeth  only  in  the  power,  authority,  and 
He  gives  a  fkijl,  of  the  Lord  high  Secretary  him- 
Hcenc*  to  felf.  Talk  of  them  he  may,  and  fo 
them  :  may  the  reft  of  the  Town  of  manfoul; 
yea,  and  may,  as  occafion  gives  them  opportunity, 
prefs  them  upon  each  other,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Whole.  Thefe  things,  therefore,  I  would  have 
you  obferve  and  do  ;  for  it  is  for  your  life,andthe 
lengthening  of  your  days. 

"And  one  thing  more  to  my  beloved  Mr.  Re- 
corder, and  to  all  the  Town  of  manfoul  :  you  mull 
not  dwell  in, nor  ftay  upon, any  thing  of  that  which 
he  hath  in  commi/Tion  to  teach  you, as  toyour  trufi 
and  exptclacion  of  the  next  world;  of  the  next 
He  fromifes  world,  1  fay  ;  for  I  purpofe  to  give 
a  world  to  another  to  manfoul,  when  this  with 
come  :  them  is  worn  out  :  but  for  that  you 

mud  wholly  and  folely  have  recourfe  to,and  make 
flay  upon,  his  doctrine,  that  is  your  teacher  after 


The    HOLY   WAR.  189 

the  firft  order.  Yea,  Mr.  Recorder  himfelf  mult 
not  look  for  life  from  that  which  he  himfelf  re- 
vealeth,  his  dependence  for  that  mull:  be  founded 
in  the  doctrine  of  the  other  preacher.  Let  Mr. 
Recorder  alio  take  heed  that  he  receive  not  any 
doctrine,  or  point  of  doctrine,  that  is  not  commu- 
nicated to  him  by  his  fuperior  teacher,  nor  yet 
within  the  precincts  of  his  own  formal  knowledge." 

Now,after  the  Prince  had  thus  fettled  things  in 
He  gives  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul,  he  pro- 
them  cau-  ceeded  to  give  to  the  elders  of  the 
tion  abgut  Corporation  a  necefTary  caution,  to  wit, 
the  cap-  how  they  mould  carry  it  to  the  high 
tains.  and  noble  captains  that  he  had,  from  his 
Father's  court,  fent  or  brought  with  him  to  the 
famous  Town  of  manfoul. 

"Thefe  captains,"  faid  he,  "do  love  the  Town 
Graces  of  manfoul,  and  they  are  picked  men, 

ficked  from  picked  out  of  abundance,  as  men  that . 
common  beft  fuif,  and  that  will  moit  faithfully 
virtues.  ferve  in,  the  wars  of  Shaddai,  againft 
the  Diabolonians,fortheprefervation  of  the  Town 
of  manfoul.  I  charge  you  therefore,  faid  he,  O 
ye  inhabitantsof  thenow-flourimingTownofman- 
foul,  that  you  carry  it  not  ruggedly  or  untoward- 
ly  to  my  captains  or  their  men,  fince,  as  I  faid, 
they  are  picked  and  choice  men,  men  chofen  out 
of  many,  for  the  good  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  I 
fay, I  charge  you  that  you  carry  it  not  untoward- 
ly  to  them:  for  though  they  have  the  hearts  arkf 
faces  of  lions,  when  at  any  time  they  fhall  be  call- 
ed forth  to  engage  and  fight  with  the  King's  foes, 
Satan  can-  and  the  enemies  of  the  Town  of  man- 
not  weaken  foul,  yet  a  little  difcountenance  caft 
our  graces  upon  them  from  the  Town  of  man- 
as  -we  our-  foul  will  deject  and  caft  down  their 
fehesmay.  faces, will  weaken  and  take  away  their 


i9o  The    HOLY     WAR. 

courage.  Do  not  therefore,oh,  my  beloved,  carry 
it  unkindly  to  my  valiant  Captains,and  courageous 
rp.  i  men  of  war,but  love  them,nourifli  hem,  j 
fuccour  them,  and  lay  them  in  your  bo-  j 
foms  ;  and  they  will  not  only  fight  for  you,  buc 
caufe  ro  flee  from  you  all  thole  Diabolonians  that 
feek,  and  will  if  poffible,  be  your  utter  deilrucYion. 

"  If  therefore  any  of  them  ihould  at  any  time 
be  fick  or  weak,  and  fo  not  able  to  perform  that 
office  of  love  which  with  all  their  hearts  they  are 
Heb.x'm.  21.  willing  to  do  (and  will  do  alio,  when. 
If  j.  xxxv.  3.  well  and  in  health)  flight  them  not, 
Rev.  in.  2.  nor  defpife  them, but  rather  itrength- 
lTkeJf.Y.14.  en  them,  and  encourage  them,  tho' 
weak  and  ready  to  die  ;  for  they  are  your  fence 
and  your  guard, your  wall, your  gates, your  locks, 
and  your  bars.  And  although,  when  they  are  weak, 
they  can  do  but  little,  but  rather  need  to  be  helped 
fey  you  {ihz?>  zh>i  you  (hould  then  expect  great 
things  from  themjyet,  when  well, you  know  what 
exploits,  what  feats  and  warlike  atchievements, 
they  are  able  to  do,  and  will  perform  for  you. 

"Befides,  if  thay  be  weak,  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  cannot  be  flrong  ;  if  they  beilrong,then  man- 
foul  cannot  be  weak  :  your  fafety,  therefore, doth 
lye  in  their  health,  and  in  your  countenancing  of 
them.  Remember  alfo,,that,  if  they  be  fick.they 
catch  that  difeafe  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  itfelf. 

"Thefe  things  I  have  faid  unto  you,  becaufe  I 
love  your  welfare  and  your  honour :  obferve  there- 
fore, oh,  my  manfoul,  to  be  punctual  in  all  things 
that  I  have  given  in  charge  to  you,  and  that  not 
only  as  a  Town-corporate,  and  fo  to  your  officers 
and  guard,  and  guides  in  chief,  but  to  you,  as  you 
are  a  people  whofe  well  being  as  fingle  perfons 
depends  on  the  obfervation  of  the  orders  and  com- 
mandments of  their  Lord. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  191 

"Next,  oh,  my  manfoul,  I  do  warn  you  of 
tliat  of  which,  notwithflanding  that  reformation 
A  caution  that  at  prefent  is  wrought  among  you, 
about  the  you  have  need  to  Be  warned  about  : 
Diabo/o-  wherefore  hearken  diligently  unto  me. 
nians  that  I  am  now  fure,  and  you  will  know 
yet  remain  hereafter,  that  there  are  yet  of  the 
in  Manfoul,  Diabolonians  remaining  in  the  Town 
of  manfoul  ;  Diabolonians  that  are  fturdy  and  im- 
placable,and  that  do  already  while  I  am  with  you, 
and  that  will  yet  more  when  I  am  from  you,ftudy, 
plot,  contrive, invent, and  jointly  attempt  to  bring 
you  to*defolation,  and  lb  to  a  ltate  far  WGrfe  than 
that  of  the  Egyptian  bondage  ;  they  are  the 
avowed  friends  of  Diabolus,  therefore  look  about 
you :  they  ufed  heretofore  to  lodge  with  theirPrince 
in  theCaille  when  Incredulity  was  the  Lord  Mayor 
of  this  Town  ;  but,  fince  my  coming  hither  they 
Mark.  vii.  lye  more  in  the  outlldes  and  walls,  and 
21,  22.  have. made  themfelves  dens  and  caves* 
and  holes,  andftrongholds,therein.  Wherefore,oh, 
manfoul,  thy  work  as  to  this  will  be  fo  much  the. 
„  o  more  difficult  and  hard  ;  that   is,  ;to 

Kom.vn.  1  '^^  mortify,and  put  them  to  death*, 
according  to  the  will  of  my  Father.  Nor  can  you 
Chrift  utterly  rid  yourfelves  of  them,  unlefs 

/would not  you  mould  pull  down  the  walls  of 
have  us  de-  your  Town,  the  which  I  am  by  no 
Jlroy  our-  means  willing  you  mould.  Do  you 
f elves  there-  afk  me,  What  fhalKve  do  then  ?  Why, 
by  to  de-  be  you  diligent,  and  quit  you  like 
jlroy  our.  men  ;  obferve  their  holds,  find  out 
fins.  their  haunts,  affauk  them,   and   make 

no  peace  with  them.  Wherever  they  haunt, lurk, 
or  abide,  and  what  terms  ofpeace  foeverthey  offer 
you,  abhor,  and  all  fhall  be  well  betwixt  you  and 
rne.     And,  that  you  may  the  better  know   them 


i92  The    HOLY   WAR. 

from  thofe  that  are  the  natives  of  manfoul,  I  will 
give  you  this  brief  fchedule  of  the  names  of  the 
chief  of  them  ;  and  they  are  thefe  that  follow :  the 
Names  of  Lord  Fornication,  the  Lord  Adultery, 
form  Dia-  the  Lord  Murder,  theLord  Anger,the 
bolonians  Lord  Lafcivioulhefs,  the  Lord  Deceit, 
in  Manfoul.  the  Lord  Evil-eye,  Mr.  Drunkennefs, 
Mr.  Revelling,  Mr.  Idolatry,  Mr.  Witchcraft,  Mr. 
Variance,  Mr.  Emulation,  Mr.  Wrath,  Mr.  Strife, 
GaL  v.  19.  Mr.  Sedition,  and  Mr.  Herefy.  Thefe 
— 21.  are  fome  pf  the  chief,  oh,  manfoul,  of 

thofe  that  will  feek  to  overthrow  thee  for  ever  : 
thefe,  I  fay,  are  the  fculkers  in  manfoul  ;  but  look 
thou  well  into  the  law  of  thy  King,  and  there  thou 
fhalt  find  their  phyfiognomy,  and  fuch  other  cha- 
rade rift  ical  notes  of  them  by  which  they  certaiiv 
ly  may  be  known. 

"  Thefe,  O  my  manfoul  (and  I  would  gladly 
that  you  mould  certainly  know  it)  if  they  be  fuf- 
fered  to  run  and  range  about  the  Town  as  they 
would, willquickly,likevipers,eat  outyour  bowels, 
yea,  poifon  your  Captains,cut  the  flnews  of  your 
ibldiers,break  the  bar,  and  bolts  of  your  gates,and 
turn  your  now  moft  flourifhing  manfoul  into  a 
barren  and  defolate  wildernefs  and  ruinous  heap. 
A  com-  Wherefore,  that  you  may  take  courage 
ini.ffioy  to  to  yourfelves  to  apprehend  thefe  vil- 
deftroy  the  lains  wherever  you  find  them,  I  give 
Diabolo-  you,  my  Lord  Mayor,  my  Lord  Will- 
nians  in  bewill,  and  Mr.  Recorder,  with  all  the 
)Vlanfoul  inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  manfoul, 
full  power  andcommiflion  to  feek  out,to  take,and 
caufe  to  be  put  to  death,  by  the  crofs,  all,  and  all 
manner  of  Diabolonians,  when  and  wherever  you 
fhall  find  them  to  lurk  within,  or  to  range  with- 
our,  the  walls  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.. 

I  told  you  before,  that  I  had  placed  a  (landing 


The    HOLY    WAR.  193 

miniftry  among  you,  not  that  you  have  but  thefe 
with  you,  for  my  four  firfl  captains,  who  came 
againll  the  matter  and  lord  of  the  Diabolonians 
More  preach-  that  was  in  manfoul,  they  can  (and 
ers,  if  need  if  need  be,  if  they  be  required,  wili) 
be,  for  Man-  not  only  privately  inform,  but  pub- 
fouL  licly  preach  to,the  Corporation, both 

good  and  wholefome  doctrine,  and  fuch  as  fhall 
lead  you  in  the  way;  yea,they  willfet  up  a  week- 
ly, and,  if  need  be,  a  daily,  lecture  in  thee,0  man- 
foul,and  will  inftruct  thee  in  fuch  profitable  leffons, 
that, if  heeded, will  do  thee  good  at  the  end.  And 
take  good  heed  that  you  fpare  not  the  men  that 
you  have  a  commiflion  to  take  and  crucify. 

"Now,  as  I  have  fet  out  before  your  eyes  the 
vagrants  and  runagates  by  name,fo  I  will  tellyou, 
that  among  yourfelves  fome  of  them  fhall  creep  in 
to  beguile  you,  even  fuch  as  would  feem,  and  that 
in  appearance  are,  very  rife  and  hot  for  religion  ; 
and  they,if  you  watch  not, wili  do  you  a  mifchief, 
fuch  an  one  as  at  prefent  you  cannot  think  of. 

"Thefe,  as  I  faid,  will  mew  themfelves  to  yoii 
in  another  hue  than  thofe  under  the  defcription  b<s 
fore.  Wherefore,  manfoul,  watch  and  be  fober, 
and  fuffer  not  thyfelf  to  be  betrayed." 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  far  new-modelled  the 
Town  of  manfoul,  and  had  inftructed  them  in  fuchC 
matters  as  were  profitable  for  them  to  know,  then 
he  appointed  another  day,  in  which  he  intended," 
when  theTownsfolk  came  together,tobeftow  a  fur- , 
Another        ther  badge  of  honour  upon  the  Town 
frtviledge    of  manfoul,  a  badge    that    fhould    dip 
for  Mtf/j/Wtinguifh  them   from   all   the   people, 
kindred, and  tongues,that  dwell  in  the  kingdomof 
Univcrfe.  Now,  it  was  not  long  before  the  day  ap- 
pointed was  come,  and  the  Prince  and  his  people 
met  in  the  King's  pahce,  where,  firft,  Emmanuel 


io4  The  HOLY    WAR. 

made  a  more  fpeech  unto  them,  and  then  Sid  for 

them  as  he  had  laid,  and  unco  them  as  he  had  pro- 

mifed. 

"My  manfoul,"  faid  he,  "  that  which  I  now  am 

tr,  r^^i    about  to  do,is  to  make  you  known  to 
tits  Jpeecb,     ,  ,,       ,  - '  ,.n. 

J£  the  wond  to  be  mine,  and  to  diftin- 

guifh  you  alio  in  your  own    eyes  from  all   falfe 
traitors  that  may  creep  in  among  you." 

Then  he  commanded  that  thofe  that  waited  up- 
on him  fhould  go  and  bring  forth  out  of  his  trea- 
IVhite  fury  thofe  white  and  gliitening  robes, 
robes,  Rev.  that  I  (faid  he)  have  provided  and  laid 
xix.  8.  up  in  flore  for  my  manfoul.  So  the 
white  garments  were  fetched  out  of  his  treafury, 
and  laid  forth  to  the  eyes  of  the  people.  More- 
over,it  was  granted  to  them  that  they  fhould  take 
them  and  put  them  on, according  (faid  he)  to  your 
ilze  and  ftature.  So  the  people  were  put  into 
■yvhitje,  into  fine  linen  white  and  clean.. 

Then  faid  the  Prince  unto  them,  "This,0  man- 

f&ul,  is  my  livery,  and  the  badge  by  which  mine 
are  known  from  the  fervants  of  others  ;  yea,  it  is 

.thai  which  I  grant  to  all  that  are  mine,  and  with- 
out which  no  man  is  permitted  to  fee  my  face. 

.Wear  them,  therefore,  for  my  fake,   who   gave 

'-fhemunto  you,  and  alio  if  you  would  be  known 

X$y  the  world  to  be  mine." 

But  now,  can  you  think  how  rnanfoul  flione  ? 
It  was  fair  as  the  fun,  clear  as  the  moon,  and  ter- 
rible as  an  army  with  banners. 

The  Prince  added  further,  and  faid, "No  prince, 
Manfoul  di-  potentate,  or  mighty  one  of  Univerfe, 
(llnguiflded  giveth  this  livery  but  myfelf :  behold, 
f<  smother  therefore,  as  I  faid  before,  you  ihall 
pjofle.  be  known  by  it  to  be  mine. 
"And  now,"faid  he, "I  have  given  you  my  livery, 
me  give  you  alio  in  commandment  concerning 


The    HOLY    WAR.  195 

them,  and  be  fure  that  you  take  good  heed  to  my 

words  : 

"Firft,  wear  them  daily,  day  by  day,  left   you 

P    r  •      n    mould  at  fbme  times  appear  to  others 

'  l  '    'as  if  you  were  none  of  mine. 

"Secondly,  Keep  them  always  white  ;    for,   if 

-,       ...         they  be  foiled,  it   is   a  difhonour   to 
Rev.  in.  4.  ^aJ  ' 

7    me. 

"Thirdly,  Therefore  gird  them  up   from   the 
ground,  and  let  them  not  clag  with  dufl  and  dirt. 

"  Fourthly,  Take  heed  that  you  lofe  them  nor, 
left  you  walk  naked,  and  they  fee  your  iliame. 

"Fifthly,  But  if  you  mould  fully  them,    if  you 
nn      ••    mould  derile  them  (the  which  I  am  great- 
\    7  ty    unw^^n?^y    }T°u   fhould,  and   tbe 
^*     '  'i  prince   Diabolus   will   be   chid  if  you 
would)  then  fpeed  you  to  do  that  which  is  written 
j   ,        .  in  my  law,  that  yeftyou  may  ft  and  and 
J  '  not  fall  before me,and  before  my  throne..; 

3  '  VUfo  this  is  the  way  to  caufe  that  I  m 

not  leave  you  nor   forfake  you   while   here,   bur. 
may  dwell  in  the  Town  of  manfoul  for  ever." 

And  now  was  manfoul,  and  rhe   inhabitants  ".&$* 
The  glori-   it. as  the  fignet  upon  Emmanuel's  right 
ous  jlate  of  hand  :  where  was  there  now  a  To. 
Manfoul.     a  city,  a  corporation,  that    could    cc 
pare  with  manfoul  ?  a  Town  redeemed   from  t 
hand  and  from  the  power  of  Diabolus  \  a  Towfc; 
that  the  KingShaddai  loved,  and  that  he  fenr  I 
manuel  to  regain  from  the  prince  of  r.he  unferna-j* 
Cave  1  yea, a  Town  that  Emmanuel  loved  ro  dwell 
in,  anS  that  he  chofe  for  his  Royal  habitation  J  & 
Town  that   he  fortified  for   himfelf,  and'  made 
ftrong  by  the  force  of  his  army  !  What  mall  I  fay? 
manfoul  has  now  a  moil:  excellent  Prince,  golden 
captains,  and  men  of  war,  weapons  proved,    ; 
garmentsas  whireasfnow.  Nor  are  thefe benefits 
R2 


i$6  The    HOLY    WAR. 

be  counted  little,but  great, can  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  efteem  them  fo  and  improve  them  to  that  end 
andpurpofe  for  which  they  are  beftowed  upon  them. 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  completed  the  mo- 
delling of  the  Town,  to  fhew  that  he  had  great 
delight  in  the  work  of  his  hands,and  took  pleafure 
in  the  good  that  he  had  wrought  for  the  famous 
and  flourifhing  manfoul,  he  commanded,  and  they 
fet  his  ftandard  upon  the  battlements  of  the  Caf- 
tie  ;  and  then, 

i  ft,  Pie  gave  them  frequent  vifks.  Not  a  day 
2  Cor.  vi.  now  but  the  elders  of  manfoul  muft  come 
16.  to  him  (or  he  to  them)  into  his  palace  ; 

now  they  muft  walk  and  talk  together  of  all  the 
great  things  that  he  had  done,  and  yet  further 
promifed  to  do,  for  the  Town  of  manfoul.  This 
would  he  often  do  with  the  Lord  Mayor, my  Lord 
The  Under-  Willbewill,and  the  honeft  fubordinate 
.(landing.  '  preacher  Mr.  Confcicnce,  and  Mr. 
The  IVUl.  Recorder.  But,  oh,  how  §raciouily, 
how  lovingly,  how  courteoufly  and  tenderly,  did 
this 'bleffed  Princenow  carry  it  towards  the  Town 
of  manfoul  !  In  all  the  ftreets,  gardens,  orchards, 
and  other  places  where  he  came,  to  be  fure  the 
.Hungry  poor  mould  have  his  bleiling  and  bene- 
thoughts,  diction  ;  yea.  he  would  kifs  them,  and, 
•if  they  were  ill,  he  would  lay  hands  on  them,and 
•mike  them  well.  The  Captains  alfo  he  would 
daffy,  yea,  fometimes  hourly,  encourage  with  his 
prefence  and  goodly  words  :  for  you  muft  know, 
that  a  fmile  from  him  upon  them  would  put  more 
vigour,  more  life  and  iioutnefs  into  them,  than 
would  any  thing  elfe  under  heaven. 

The  Prince  would  now  alfo  feaft  them,  and  be 

~  „    with  them  continually ;  hardly  a  week 

would  pafs  but  a  banquet  muft  be  had 

betwixt  him  and  them.    You  may  remember  that, 


The  HOLY   WAR.  197 

A  token  of  fome  pages  before,  we  made  mention 
marriage,  of  one  feaft  that  they  had  together  ;  but 
A  token  of  now  to  fealt  them  was  a  thing  more 
honour.  common,  every  day  with  manfoul  was 
A  token  of  a  feaft-day  now.  Nor  did  he,  when 
beauty.  they  returned  to  their  places,  fend  them 
empty  away;  either  they  mull:  have  a  ring,  a  golden 
A  token  of  chain,  a  bracelet,  a  white  flone,  or  fome- 
fardon.  thing,  fo  dear  was  manfoul  to  him  now, 
fo  lovely  was  manfoul  in  his  eyes. 

sdly,  When  the  elders  and  Townfmen  did  not 
come  to  him,  he  would  fend  in  much  plenty  of 
provifion  unto  them,  meat  that  came  from  Court, 
wine  and  bread  that  were  prepared  for  his  Father's 
table  ;  yea,  fuch  delicacies  would  he  fend  them, 
and  therewith  would  fo  cover  their  Table,  that 
whoever  faw  it  confefTed  that  the  like  could  not 
be  feen  in  any  kingdom. 

3dly,  Iffnanfoul  did  not  frequently  vific  hita* 
The  danger  as  he  dellred  they  fhould,  he  would 
of  wander-  walk  out  to  them,  knock  at  their 
ing  thoughts,  doors,  and  defire  entrance,  that  '■**] 
Rev.  iii.  20.  mity  might  be  maintained  betwixt 
Cant.  v.  2.  them  and  him  ;  if  they  did  hear  and 
open  to  him,  as  commonly  they  would  if  they 
were  at  home,  then  would  he  renew  his  former 
love,  and  confirm  it  too,  with  fome  new  tokens 
and  figns  of  continued  favour. 

And  was  it  not  now  amazing  to  behold,  lhaV 
in  that  very  place  where  fometimes  Diabolus  had 
his  abode,  and  entertained  his  Diabolonians,  to  the- 
almoil  utter  deftrudti on  of  manfoul,  the  Prince  ci 
princes  mould  fit  eating  and  drinking  with  them, 
while  all  his  mighty  Captains,  men, of  war,  trum- 
peters, with  the  finging-men  and  finging-wcmen 
of  his  Father,  ftood  round  about,  to  wait  upon 
them,! ,  Now  did  man  foul's   eup   run   over,   r. 

Pv    2        ' 


i98  The   HOLY    WAR. 

ManfouFs  did  her  conduics  run  fweet  wine,   now 

glory.         did  fhe  eat  the  fmefr,  of  the  wheat,  and 

drink  milk  and  honey  out  of  the  rock  !  now  fhe 

faid,  How  great  is  his  goodnefs  !  for  fince  I  found 

favour  in  his  eyes,  how  honourable  have  I  been  ! 

The  blefTed  Prince  did  alfo  ordain  a  new  officer 

n  ,  ...  in  the  Town  and  a  goodly  perfon  he 

Col.  in.  i<.  ,  .  *»        Jr}  ,r 

J     was  ;  his  name  was  Mr.  Godipeace  ; 

this  man  was  fet  over  my  Lord  Willbewill.my  Lord 
Mayor,  Mr.  Recorder,  the  fubordinate  Preacher, 
Mr.  Mind,  and  over  all  the  natives  of  theTown  of 
«  manfoul.     Himfelf  was  not  a  native  of 

"  it,  but  came  with  the  Prince  Emmanuel 
from  the  Court.  He  was  a  great  ac- 
quaintance of  Captain  Credence  and  Captain 
Good-hope  ;  fome  fay  they  were  kin,  and  I  am 
of  that  opinion  too.  This  man,  as  I  faid,  was 
made  governor  of  the  Town  in  general,  fpecially 
over  the  Caftle,  and  Captain  Credence  was  to  help 
Vnn  there.  And  I  made  great  observations  of  it, 
that  fo  long  as  all  things  went  in  manfoul  as  this 
fweet-natured  gentleman  would, the  Town  was  in 
a  moft  happy  condition.  Now  there  were  no  jars, 
no  chiding,  no  interfering,  no  unfaithful  doings, 
in  all  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  every  man  in  manfoul 
kept  clofe  to  his  own  employment.  The  gentry, 
the  officers,  the  foldicrs,  and  all  in  place,  obferved 
Holy  con-  their  order.  And  as  for  the  women 
captions,  and  children  of  the  Town,  they  fol- 
Good  lowed  their  bufinefs  joyfully,  they 
thoughts,  would  work  and  fing  from  morning 
till  night  ;  fo  that  quite  through  the  Town  of 
manfoul, no\v,nothing  was  to  be  found  but  harmony, 
quietnefs,  joy,  and  health.  And  this  lafted  all 
that  fu miner. 

But  there  was  a  man  in  the  Town  of  manfoul, 
and  his  name  was  Mr.  Carnal  Security  3  this  man 


The   HOLY    WAR.  i99 

The  Story  did,  after  all  this  mercy  bellowed  on 
ofMrKCar-th is  corporation,  bring  the  Town  of 
rial  Securi-  man  foul  into  a  great  and  grievous 
/y.  flavery  and  bondage.     A  brief  account 

of  him  and  of  his  doings  take  as  followeth. 

When  Diabolus  at  firft  rook  pofTeffion  of  the 
Town  of  manfoul,  he  brought  thither  with  him 
a  great  number  of  Diabolonians,  men  of  his  own 
condition.  Now,  among  thefe,  there  was  one 
M    S  If       wno^e  na™e  was  Mr.  Self-conceit, and 

r.    e  j~t    t  ^  notaj3]e  brifk  man  he  was   as   any 

that  in  thofe  days  poiTefTed  the  Town 
of  manfoul.  Diabolus  then,  perceiving  this  man  to 
be  active  and  bold,  fent  him  upon  many  defperate 
defigns,  the  which  he  managed  better,  and  more 
to  the  pleailng  of  his  Lord,  then  mod  that  came 
with  him  from  the  dens  could  do  :  wherefore, 
finding  of  him  fo  fit  for  his  purpofe,  he  preferred 
him  and  made  him  next  to  the  great  Lord  Will- 
bewill,  of  whom  we  have  written  fo  much  before* 
Now,  the  Lord  Wil'bewill  being,  in  thofe  days, 
very  well  pleafed  with  him,  and  with  his  atchieve- 
ments,  gave  him  his  daughter,  the  Lady  Fearnc- 
thing,  to  wife.  Now,of  my  LadyFeamothingdid 
Carnal  Se-  this  Mr.  Self-conceit  beget  this  gen-r 
curity's  or/'-tleman  Mr.  Carnal  Security.  Where- 
ginaL  fore,  there  being  then  in  manfoul  thofe 

ilrange  kind  of  mixtures,  it  was  hard  for  them,  in 
fume  cafes,  to  find  out  who  were  natives,  who 
not  ;  for  Mr.  Carnal  Security  fprang  from  my 
Lord  Willbewill  by  mother's  fide,  though  he  had 
for  his  father  a  Diabolonian  by  nature. 

Well,  this  Carnal  Security  took  much  after  his 
father  and  mother  :  he  was  felf-conceited,  he  fear- 
er. i-    ed    nothing,    he  was  alfo  a  very  bufy 
man;   nothing  of  news,    nothing   ot 
doctrine,  nothing  of  alteration,  or  talk 


soo  The    HOLY   WAR. 

of  alteration,  could  at  any  time  be  on  foot  in  man- 
foul,  but  be  fure  Mr.  Carnal  Security  would  be  at 
the  head  or  tail  of  it :  but  to  be  fure  he  would 
He  is  al~  decline  thofe  that  he  deemed  the  weak- 
iv  ays  for  the  efl,and  flood  always  with  themfin  his 
jlrongeft  way  of  ftanding)  that  he  fuppofed 
fide.  were  the  ftrongefl  fide. 

Now, when  Shaddai  the  mighty,and  Emmanuel 
his  Son,  made  war  upon  manfoul  to  rake  it,   this 
Mr.  Carnal  Security  was  then  in  the  Town,  and 
was  a  great  doer  among  the  people,   encouraging 
them  in  their  rebellion,   putting  of  them  upon 
hardening  of  themfelves  in  their  refitting  of   the 
King's  forces;  but  when  he  faw  that  the  Town  of 
manfoul  was  taken  and  converted  to  the  ufe  of 
the'glorious  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  when  he  alfo 
faw  what  was  become  of  Diabolus,  and  how  he 
was  unroofted,  and  made  to  quit  the  Caflle  in  the 
'  greateft  contempt  and  fcorn,and  that  the  Town  of 
manfoul  was  well  lined  with  Captains,  engines  of 
war,  and  men,  and  alfo  provifion,  what   doth   he 
b m  fiy ly  wheels  about  alfo  ;  and  as  he  had  ferved 
Dk^bolus  againfl  the  good  Prince,  fo   he   feigned 
thai  he  would  ferve  the  Prince  againfl  his  foes. 
'  And  having  got  fome  little  fmattering  of  Em- 
manuel's things  by  the  end   (being  bold)  he    ven- 
tures himfelf  into  the  company  of  the  Townfmen, 
and  attempts  alfo  to  chat  among  them.     Now  he 
How  Mr.     knew  that  the  power  and  ilrength  of 
Ctirnal  Se-   the  Town  of  manfoul  was   great,  and 
Curity  be-     that  it  could  not  but   be   pleafing   to 
gins  the  mi-the  people  if  he  cried  up  their  might 
pry  ofMan-md  their  glory  ;  wherefore  he  begin- 
fjuL  neth   his   tale   with    the   power    and 

Ilrength  of  manfoul,  and  affirmed  that  it  was  im- 
pregnable ;  now  magnifying  their  Captains):  and 
their  flings,  and  their  rams  -7  then  crying  up  their 


The    HOLY    WAR.  201 

fortifications  and  ftrongholds  ;  and,  laftly,  the  af- 
furandes  that  they  had  from  their  Prince  that 
manfoul  ihould  be  happy  for  ever.  But  when 
he  fiw  that  fome  of  the  men  of  the  Town  were 
tickled  and  taken  with  his  difcourfe,  he  makes  it 
his  bufinefs,  and  walking  from  ftreet  to  flreet, 
houfe  to  houfe,  and  man  to  man,  he  at  laft  brought 
manfoul  to  dance  after  his  pipe,  and  to  grow  al- 
mofl  as  carnally  fecure  as  himfelf  ;  fo  from  talk- 
ing they  went  to  feafling,  and  from  feafling  to 
Grace  recei-  fporting  ;  and  fo  to  fome  other  mat- 
ved,  not  grace  ters  (now  Emmanuel  was  yet 
improved,  that  in  the  Town  of  manful,  and  he 
freferves  the  wifely  obferved  their  doings.)  My 
foul  from  tern- Lord  Mayor,  my  Lord  Willbewill, 
for  at  dangers,  and  Mr.  Recorder,  were  alfo  taken 
with  the  words  ofthistalking  Diabolonian  gentle- 
man ;  forgetting  that  their  Prince  had  given  them 
warning  before  to  take  heed  that  they  were  hot 
beguiled  with  any  Diabolonian  fleight.  He  had 
further  told  them,  that  the  fecurity  of  the  now 
flourifhing  Town  of  manfoul  did  not  fo  much  lye 
in  her  prefent  fortifications  and  force,  as  m  her 
fo  uflng  of  what  ihe  had,  as  might  oblige  her' Em- 
manuel to  abide  within  her  Caitle  :  for  the  right 
doctrine  of  Emmanuel  was,that  the  Town  of  man- 
foul Ihould  take  heed  that  they  forgot  not  his 
-Father's  love  and  his  ;  alfo,  that  they  mould  fo 
demean  themfelves  as  to  continue  to  keep  them- 
felves  therein.  Now,  this  was  not  the  way  to  do 
it,  namely,  to  fall  in  love  with  one  of  the  Diabo- 
lonians,  and  with  fuch  an  one  too  as  Mr.  Carnal 
Security  was,  and  to  be  led  up  and  down  by  the 
nofe  by  him  :  they  mould  have  heard  their  Prince, 
feared  their  Prince,  loved  their  Prince,  and  have 
Honed  this  naughty  pack  to  death,  and  took  care 
to  have  walked  in  the  ways  of  their  Prince's  pre- 


*02  The   H  OLY    WAR. 

fcribing  :  for  then  mould  their  peace  have  been  as 
a  river,  when  their  righteoufnefs  had  bee*n  like 
the  waves  of  the  fea. 

Now,  when  Emmanuel  perceived  that,  through 
the  policy  of  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  the  hearts  of 
the  men  of  manfoul  were  chilled  and  abated  in 
their  practical  love  to  him  ; 

Firft,  He  bemoans  them,  and  condoles  their  Hate 
Emmanuel  with  the  Secretary,  faying,  "Oh  that 
bemoans  my  people  had  hearkened  unto  me  and 
ManfouL  that  manfoul  had  walked  in  my  ways  ! 
J  would  have  fed  them  with  the  fined:  of  the 
wheat,  and  with  honey  out  of  the  rock  would 
I  have  fuftained  them/'  This  done,  he  faid  in  his 
heart,  ul  will  return  to  the  Court,  and  go  to  my 
place,  till  manfoul  fhall  confider  and  acknowledge 
their  offence/7  And  he  did  fo  ;  and  the  caufe  and 
manner  of  his  going  away  from   them  was  this  : 

The  caufe  was,  for  that,  firit,  manfoul  declined 
Sb&h,  as  is  manifelt  in  thefe  particulars ; 

I.  They  left' off  their  former  way  of  vifiting  of 
The  way  of  him  ;  they  came  not  to  his  Royal 
ManfouPs  palace  as  afore. 
■backftiding.  2.  They  did  not  regard,  nor  yet 
rake  notice,  that  he  came  or  came  not  to  vifit 
-them. 

3.  The  love-feafts  that  had  wont  to  be  betwixt 
their  Prince  and  them,  though  he  made  them  if  ill, 
-and  called  them  to  them,  yet  they  negleded  to 
-come  to  them,  or  to  be  delighted  with  them. 

4.  They  waited  not  for  his  counfels,  but  began 
to  be  headftrong  and  confident  in  themielves,  con- 
cluding, that  now  they  were  ftrong  and  invinci- 
ble, and  that  manfoul  was  fecure  and  be)''ond  all 
reach  of  the  foe,  and  that  her  flatemuft  needs  be 
unalterable  for  ever. 

Now  as  was  faid,  Emmanuel  perceiving   that 


The    HOLY    WAR.  203 

by  the  craft  of  Mr.  Carnal  Security  the  Town  of 
manfoul  was  taken  oft  from  their  dependence  upon 
him,  and  upon  his  Father  by  him,  and  fet  upon 
what  by  them  was  beflowed  upon  it ;  he  firft,as  I 
faid,  bemoaned  their  ftate  5  then  he  ufed  means 
to  make  them  underftand  that  the  way  that  they 
went  on  in  was  dangerous  :  for  he  fent  my  Lord 
high  Secretary  to  them, to  forbid. them  fuch  ways; 
but,  twice, when  he  came  to  them,  he  found  them 
at  dinner  in  Mr.  Carnal  Security's  parlour  ;  and, 
perceiving  alfo  that  they  were  not  willing  to  rea- 
ion  about  matters  concerning'their  good,  he  took 
They  grieve  grief  and  went  his  way.  The  which 
the  Holy  when  he  had  told  to  the  PrinceEmma- 
Ghofi  and  nuel,he  took  offence,  and  was  grieved 
Chrift.  alfo,  and  fo  made  provifion  to  return 

to  his  Father's  court. 

Now  the  methods  of  his  withdrawing,  as  I  was. 
faying  before,  were  thus  : 

1.  Even  while  he  was  yet  with  them  in  man- 
Chrift  withdraws  foul,  he  kept  himfelf  clofe,    and*: 
not  all  at  once,       more  retired  than  formerly. 

2.  His  fpeech  was  not  now,  if  he  came  in  their 
company,  fo  pleafant  and  familiar  as  formerly. 

3.  Nor  did  he,  as  in  times  paft,fend  to  manfoul: 
from  his  table  thefe  dainty  bits  which  he  was  wonc 
to  do. 

4.  Nor  when  they  came  to  vifit  him, as  now  and 
then  they  would, would  he  be  foeafilyfpoken  with 
as  they  found  him  to  be  in  times  paft.  They  might 
now  knock  once,yea,twice,but  he  would  feem  not 
at  all  to  regard  them  ;  whereas  formerly,  at  the 
fVorking  of  found  of  their  feet,  he  would  up  and 
their  ajfec-  run,  and  meet  them  halfway, and  take 
tions.  them  too,  and  lay  them  in  his  bofom. 

But  thus  Emmanuel  carried  it  now,  and  by  this 
his  carriage  he  fought  to  make  them  bethink  thejft* 


2o4  The   HOLY  WAR. 

felves  and  return  to  him.  But,  alas  !  they  did  not 
confider.  they  did  not  know  his  ways,they  regard- 
ed not, they  were  not  touched  with  thefe,nor  with 
the  true  remembrance  of  former  favours.  Where- 
He  is  gone,  fore  what  does  he, but  in  private  man- 
Ezek.xi.2 1,  ner  withdrew  himfelf,  firft  from  his 
Hof.  v.  15.  palace,  then  to  the  gate  of  the  Town, 
Lev,  xxvi.  and  fo  away  from  manfoul  he  goes,till 
21, — 24.  they  mould  acknowledge  their  offence, 
and  more  earneftly  feek  his  face.  Mr.  Godfpeace 
alfo  laid  down  his  commiilion,  and  would  for  the 
prefent  act  no  longer  in  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

Thus  they  walked  contrary  to  him,and  he  again, 
by  way  of  retaliation,  walked  contrary  to  them. 
But,  alas  !  by  this  time  they  were  fo  hardened 
in  their  way,  and  had  fo  drunk  in  the  doctrine  of 
Mr.  Carnal  Security,  that  the  departing  of  their 

*v  Prince  touched  them  not,  nor  was  he. 

mCT"    1122 

/  *  0  •  remembered  by    them   when    gone  ; 

and  fo  of  confequence  his  abfence  not  condoled 
by  them. 

Now  there  was  a  day  wherein  this  old  gentle- 
man Mr.  Carnal  Security  did  again  make  a  feaft 
for  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and  there  was  at  that 
time  in  theTown  one  Mr.Godlyfear,one  now  but 
little  fet  by,though  formerly  one  of  great  requeft, 
A  trick  fiit  This  man  old  Carnal  Security  had  a 
tipon  Mr,  mind,  if  poilible,  to  gull,  and  debauch, 
Godly fear ;  and  abufe,as  he  did  the  reft;  andthere- 
he  goes  to  fore  he  now  bids  him  to  the  feaft  with 
the  feafl,  his  neighbours.  So  the  day  being 
and  fits  come,  they  prepare,  and  he  goes  and 
there  like  a  appears  with  the  reft  of  theguefts;  and, 
ftranger,  being  all  fet  at  the  table,  they  did  eat 
and  drink,  and  were  merry,  even  all  but  this  one 
man  :  for  Mr.  Godlyfear  fat  like  a  ftranger,  and 
did  neither  eat  nor  was  merry.  The  which,  when 


The    HOLY    WAR.  205 

Mr.  Carnal  Security  perceived,  he   prefently    ad- 
dreffed  himfelf,  in  a  fpeecb,  thus  to  him. 

Cam,  "Mr,  Godlyfear,  are  you  not  well  ?  You 
Talk  be-  feem  to  be  ill  of  body  or  mind,  or 
twixt  Mr,  both  :  I  have  a  cordial,  of  Mr.  Forget- 
Carnal  Se-  good's  making,  the  which,  Sir,  if  you 
curity  and  will  take  a  dram  of,  I  hope  it  may 
Mr,  Godly-  make  you  bonny  and  blyth,  and  ib 
fear,  make  you    more   fit   for   we   feafting 

companions." 

Godly,  Unto  whom  the  good  old  gentleman  dif- 
creetly  replied,  "Sir,  I  thank  you  for  all  things 
courteonfly  and  civil  ;  but  for  your  cordial, I  have 
no  lift  thereto.  But  a  word  to  the  natives  of  man- 
foul.  You  the  elders  and  chief  of  manfoul,  to  me 
it  isftrange  to  fee  you  fo  jocund  and  merry,when 
the  Town  of  manfoul  is  in  fuch  woeful  cafe." 

Cam,  Then  faid  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  "You 
want  fleep,  good  Sir,  I  doubt.  If  you  pleafe,  lye 
down  and  take  a  nap,  and  we  the  meanwhile  will- 
be  merry." 

Godly,  Then  faid  the  good  man  as  follows  ; 
"Sir,if  you  were  not  deftitute  of  an  honeft  heart, 
you  could  not  do  as  you  have  done,  and  do." 

Cam,  Then  faid  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  "Why  r" 

Godly,  "Nay,  pray  interrupt  me  not.  'Tis  true,v 
the  Town  of  manfoul  wasllrong,and  (with  a  pro-' 
vifo)  impregnable  ;  but  you  the  Tovvnfmen  have, 
ewakened  it, and  it  now  lyes  obnoxious  to  its  foes ; . 
nor  is  it  a  time  to  flatter  or  be  filent  :  'tis  you, Mr. 
Carnal  Security,that  have  wilily  dripped  mahfoul, 
and  driven  her  glory  from  her  ;  you  have  pulled 
down  her  towers,  and    have  broken  down  her 
gates,  you  have  fpoilcd  her  locks  and  bars. 

"And  now,to  explain  my  felf:  Fromthat  time  that- 
my  Lords  of  manfoul  and  you,  Sir,  grew  fo  great, 
from  that  time  the  Prince  of  manfoul  has  been  of-. 
S 


io6  The    HOLY      WAR. 

fended,and  now  lie  is  arifen  and  gone.  If  any  jfhall 
queftion  the  truth  of  my  words,!  will  anfwtrhim 
by  this,  and  fuch  like  queftions  :  Where  is  the 
Prince  Emmanuel  ?  When  did  a  manor  woman  in 
nunfoul  fee  him  ?  When  did  you  hear  from  him, 
or  taite  any  of  his  dainty  bits  ?  You  are  now  a- 
feafting  with  this  Diabolonian  monfter,  but  he  is 
not  your  Prince.  1  fay,therefore, though  enemies 
from  without,  had  you  taken  heed, could  not  have 
made  a  prey  of  you  ;  yer,  fince  you  have  finned 
againft  your  Prince,  your  enemies  within  have 
been  too  hard  for  you." 

Cam.  Then  faidMr.  Carnal  Security,  "Fyefye  ! 
Mr.  Godlyfear,fye  !  Will  you  never  make  ofTyour 
timeioufnefs  ?  Are  you  afraid  of  being  fparrow- 
blafted  ?  Who  hath  hurt  you  ?  Behold,  1  am  on 
your  fide  ;  only  you  are  for  doubting,and  I  am  for 
;  being  confident.  Befides,  is  this  a  time  for  being 
fad  in  ?  A  feaft  is  made  for  mirth  ;  why  then  do 
yuu  now,  to  your  fhame,  and  our  trouble,  break 
'  into  fuch  paflionate,  melancholy  language,  when 
ybu  mould  eat  and  drink  and  be  merry  ?" 

Godly.  Then  faid  Mr.  Godlyfear  again,  al  may 
.  well  be  fad,  for  Emmanuel  is  gone  from  manfouJ. 
I  fay  again,  He  is  gone,  and  you,  Sir,  are  the  man 
that  has  driven  him  away  :  yea,  he  is  gone,with- 
out  fo  much  as  acquainting  the  nobles  of  manfoul 
with  his  going  ;  and  if  that  is  not  a  fign  of  his 
anger,  I  am  not  acquainted  with  the  methods  of 
godlinefs.,, 

uAnd  now,  my  Lords  and   Gentlemen,  for  my 

His  fpeech    fpcech  is  iVill  to  you, your  gradual  de- 

to  the.  elders  dining  from  him  did  provoke  him  gra- 

'■;   of  Manfoul   dually  to  depart  from  you- ;  the  which 

he  did  for  fome  time, if  perhaps  you  would  have  been 

\  made  fenfible  thereby,  and  had  been  renewed  by 

mibling  of  youifelves  :  but  when   he  faw  that 


The  HOLY   WAR.  207 

none  would  regard,  nor  lay  thefe  fearful  begin- 
nings of  his  anger  and  judgment  to  heart,  he  went 
away  from  this  place  ;  and  this  I  faw  with  mine 
eye.  Wherefore  now,  while  you  boalt  your 
ilrength  is  gone  ;  you  are  like  the  man  that  had 
lull  his  locks,  that  before  did  wave  about  his  fhoul- 
ders.  You  may,  with  this  Lord  of  your  fealr,(hake 
yourfelves,  and  conclude  to  do  as  at  other  times ; 
but  fince  without  him  you  can  do  nothing,  and  he 
is  departed  from  you,  turn  your  feaft  into  a  iigh, 
and  your  mirth  into  a  lamentation." 

Then  the  fubordinate  Preacher,  old  Mr.  Con- 
Conference  fcience  by  name,  he  that  of  old.  was 
jlartled.  Recorder  of  manfoul,  being  flartled  at 
what  was  faid,  began  to  fecond  it  thus  : 

Con.  "Indeed,  my  brethren,"  quoth  he,  "  I  fear 
what  Mr.<jodlyfeartells  us  is  true  :  I, for  my  part, 
have  not  feen  my  Prince  for  a  long  feafon.  loan- 
not  remember  the  day,  for  my  part  ;  nor  can  I 
anfwer  Mr.  Godlyfear's  queftions.  I  doubt  I  am 
afraid  that  all  is  naught  with  manfoul." 

Godly.  "Nay,  I  know  you  mall  not  find  him    in" 
manfoul,  for  he  is  departed  and  gone  ;    yea,   and 
gone  for  the  faults  of  the   elders;    and   fbr   that 
they  rewarded  his  grace  with  unfufTerable  unkind- 
nefs." 

Then  did  the  fubordinate  Preacher  look  as  if  he 
They  are  would  fall  down  dead  at  the  table  .; 
all  aghajl.  alfo  all  there  prefent,  except  the  man 
of  the  houfe,  began  to  look  pale  and  wan.  But 
having  a  little  recovered  themfelves,  and  Jointly 
agreeing  to  believe  Mr.  Godly  fear,  and  hisfayings, 
they  began"  to  confult  what  was  belt  to  be  dope, 
(now  Mr.Carnal  Security  was  gone  into  his  with- 
drawing room,  for  he  liked  not  fuch  dumpilh 
doings)  both  to  the  men  of  the  houfe  for  drawing 
S  2 


508  The   HOLY   WAR. 

them  into  evil,  and  alfo   to  recover  Emmanuel's 

]ove. 

And  with  that,  that  faying  of  their  Prince  came 
very  hot  in  their  minds,  which  he  had  bidden  them 
do  to  fuch  as  were  falfe  prophets  that  mould  arife 
to  delude  the  Town  of  manfonl.  So  they  took  Mr. 
They  con-  Carnal  Security  (concluding  that  he 
fult  and  mult  be  he)  and  burnt  his  houfe  up- 
burn  their  on  him  with  fire,  for  he  alfo  was  a 
/>^/?-;;^y?^r.Diabolonian  by  nature. 

So,  when  this  was  pall  and  over,  they  befpeed 
themfelves  to  look  for  Emmanuel   their   Prince  ; 

C  f  r  &  "  anc*  tney  f°ugnt  him>  DUt  tney  found 
him  not."  Then  were  they  more  con- 
firmed in  the  truth  of  Mr.  Godlyfear's  fayings,asd 
began  alfo  to  reflect  feverely  on  themfelves  for 
their  vile  and  fo  ungodly  doings  ;  for  they  con- 
cluded now,  that  it  was  through  them  that  their 
Prince  had  left  them. 

Then  they  agreed,  and  went  to  my  Lord  Secre- 
.  They  apply  tary  (him  whom  before  they  refufed 
;  lo  the  Holy  to  hear,  him  whom  they  had  grieved 
GhoJ},  hut  with  their  doings)  to  know  of  him, 
he  is  grie-  for  he  was  a  feer,  and  could  tell  where 
~:edy  &c.  Emmanuel  was,  and  how  they  might- 
Jfa.\x\\\.2oA\re£t  a  petition  to  him.  But  the  Lord 
Eph.'w.  ^.Secretary  would  not  admit  them  to  a 
i  Tejf.  "  conference  about  this  matter,  nor 
v.  19.  would  admit  them  to  his  Royal   place 

of  abode,  nor  came  out  to  them  to  fhew  them  his 
face  or  intelligence. 

And  now  was  it  a  day  gloomy  and  dark,  a  day 

of  clouds  and   of  thick  darknefs   with  manfoul. 

.     Now  they  faw  that  they  had  been  foolifh,  and  be- 

n  to  perceive  what  the  company  and  the  prattle 
of  Mr.  Carnal  Security  had  done,  and  what  defpe- 
me  damage  his  fwaggering   words   had  brought 


The    HOLY   WAR.  209 

poor  manfoul  into.  But  what  further  it  was  like 
to  coil  them,  that  they  were  ignorant  of.  Now 
Mr.  G  jdlyfear  began  again  to  be  in  repute  with 
the  men  of  the  Town  ;  yea,  they  were  ready  to 
look  upon  him  as  a  prophet. 

Well,  when  the  Sabbath-day  was  come,  they 
A  thunder-  went  to  hear  their  fubordinate  Preach- 
ing  fermon.  er  ;  but,  oh,  how  did  he  thunder  and 
lighten  this  day  !  His  text  was  in   the   prophet 

77  ..  0  Jonah,  "  They  that  obferve  lying  va- 
nities  fcriake  theirown  mercy.  But 
there  was  then  fuch  power  and  authority  in  that 
fermon,  and  fuch  a  dejection  feen  in  the  counte- 
nances of  the  people  that  day,  that  the  like  hath 
feldom  been  heard  or  feen.  The  people  when 
fermon  was  done,,  were  fcarce  able  to  go  to  their 
H  C  v*  nomes5  or  to  betake  themfelves  to  their 
"   •'*  employs  the  week  after  ;  they  were  fo 

fermon-fmitten,  and  alfo  fo  fermon-fick,  by  being 
fmitten,  that  they  knew  not  what  to  do. 

He  did  not  only  fhew  to  manfoul  their  fin,  but- 
The  fub-  did  tremble  before  them,  under  the 
ordinate  fenfe  of  his  own,  ftill  crying  out  6i 
Preacher  ac-  himfelf,  as  he  preached  to  them,  "Un- 
knowledges  happy  man  that  I  am,  that  I  fhoukl 
his  faulty  do  fo  wicked  a  thing  1  That  I  !  a 
&c*  preacher  !  whom  the  Prince  did  fetup 

iyilxxxviii.  to  teach  to  manfoul  his  law,  mould 
myfelf  live  fenfelefs  and  fottifhly  here,  and  be  one 
of  the  firft  found  in  tranfgreiTion  :  this  tranfgref- 
fion  alfo  fell  within  my  precincls.  1  mould  have 
cried  out  againft  the  wickednefs,  but  I  let  man- 
foul lye  wallowing  in  it,  until  it  had  driven  Em- 
manuel from  its  borders."  With  thefe  things  her 
alfo  charged  all  the  Lords  and  gentry  of  manfoul 
to  the  almofl  diftradting  of  them. 

About  this  time  alfo  there  was  a  great  ficknefc 
S  ? 


210  The'  HOLY   WAR. 

A  great  fick-  in  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and  mod  of 
nefs  in  Man-  the  inhabitants  were  greatly  afflicted. 
foul.  Yea,  the  Captains  alfo,  and   men   of 

war,  were  brought  thereby  to  a  languifhing  con- 
dition, and  that  for  a  long  time  together  ;  fo  that, 
in  cafe  of  invafion,  nothing  could  to  purpofe  now 
have  been  done,  either  by  the  Townfmen  or  field- 
Heb.  xii.  officers.  Oh,  how  many  pale  faces, 
12,  13.  weak  hands,  feeble  knees,  and  ftag- 
Rev.  iii.  2.  gering  men,  were  now  feen  to  walk 
Ifa.  iii.  24.  in  the  ftreets  of  manfoul  !  Here  were 
groans,  there  pants,and  yonder  lay  thofe  that  were 
ready  to  faint. 

The  garments  too,  which  Emmanuel  had  given 

Sin  doth       them,  were  but  in  a  very  forry  cafe  : 

caufe-weak-  fome  were  rent,  fome  were  torn,   and 

•  nefs  both  of?\\  in  a  natty  condition  ;  fome  alfo  did 

body,  foul,    hang  fo   lofely   upon   them,   that  the 

-oid graces,  next  bum.  they  came  at  was  ready    to 

:  pluck  them  of. 

After  fome  time  fpent  in  this  fad  and   defolate 

condition,  the  fubordinate  Preacher  called    for   a 

day  of  falling,  and  to  humble  themfelves  for  their 

\  Boanerges      being  fo   wicked  againit   the   great 

th  f reach  Shaddai  and  his  Son  ;  and  he  deflred 
to  Manfoul.  that  Captain  Boanerges  would  preach. 
So  he  confented  to  do  it,  and  the  day  was  come, 
and  his  text  was  this,  "Cut  it  down,  why  cumhereth 
it  the  ground  ?"  And  a  very  fmart  fermon  hcmade 
upon  the  place.  Firft,  he  mewed  what  was  the 
occaiion  of  the  Words,  to  wit.  Becaufe  the  fig-tree 
was  barren  ;  then  he  fhewed  what  was  contained 
in  the  fentence,  to  wit,  Repentance,  or  utter  defo- 
larion.  He  then  fhewed  alfo  by  whole  authority 
this  fentence  was  pronounced,  and  that  was  by 
Shaddai  himfelf.  And,  lailJy,  he  fhewed  the  rea- 
ions  of  the  point ;  and  then  concluded  his  fermon. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  211 

But  he  was  very  pertinent  in  the  application,  in- 
They  are  fomuch  that  he  made  poor  manfoul  trem- 
much  af  ble.  For  this  fermon,  as  well  as  the 
fetted  former,  wrought  much  updn  the  hearts 
of  the  men  of  manfoul  ;  yea,  it  greatly  helped  to 
keep  awake  thofe  that  were  roufed  by  the  preach- 
ing that  went  before  :  fo  that  now,  throughout 
the  whole  Town  there  was  little  or  nothing  to  be 
heard  orfeen  but  forrow,  and  mourning,  and  woe. 

Now,  after  fermon  they  got  together,  and  con- 
They  confult  fulted  what  was  beil  to  be  done.  But, 
what  to  do.  faid  the  fubordinate  Preacher,  I  will 
do  nothing  of  mine  own  head,  without  advifing 
with  my  neighbour  Mr.  Godlyfear. 

For,if  he  had  afore,  and  underftood  more  of  the 
mind  of  our  Prince  tjian  we,  I  do  not  know  but 
he  alfo  may  have  it  now,  even  now  we  are  turn- 
ing again  to  virtue.  So-  they  called  and  fent  for 
Mr.  Godlyfear,  and  he  forthwith  appeared  ;  then 
they  defired  that  he  would  forthwith  Ihew  his. 
opinion  about  what  they  had  befl  to  do.  Then 
faid  the  old  Gentleman  as  followeth  :  "It  is  my 
Mr.  Godly-  opinion  that  this  Town  of  manfoul 
fear's  advice,  mould, in  this  day  of  herdiftrefs,draw 
up,  and  fend,  an  humble  petition  to  their  offended 
Prince  Emmanuel,  that  he,in  his  favour  and  grace, 
will  turn  again  unto  you,  and  not  keep  anger  for1 
ever."  - 

When  the  Townfmen  had  heard  this  fpeech, 
They  fend  they  did  with  one  confent  agree  to 
the  Lord  his  advice  ;  fo  they  did  prefently  draw 
Mayor  to  up  their  requeft  :  and  the  .next  was, 
Aurt.  But  who  (hall  carry  it  ?  At  lafl  they 
did  all  agree  to  fend  irby  my  Lord  Mayor.  So 
he  accepted  of  thefervice,  and  addrclTed  himfelf 
to  his  journey,  and  went  and  came  to  the  court  of 
Shaddai,  whether  Emmanuel  the  Prince  of  man- 


%m  *irHE  hoTy  war. 

foul  was  gone.  But  the  gate  was  fhut,and  a  ftrict 
watch  kept  thereat ;  lb  that  the  petitioner  was  for- 
ced to  Hand  without  for  a  great  while  together. 
Then  he  defired  that  fome  would  go  into  the. 
Prince,  and  tell  him  who  ilood  at  the  gate,  and 
what  his  bufinefs  was.  So  one  went  and  told  to 
Shaddai,  and  to  Emmanuel  his  Son,  that  the  Lord 
Mayor  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  ftood  without  at 
the  gate  of  the  King's  court, defiring  to  be  admit- 
ted into  the  prefence  of  the  Prince,  the  Ki 
Son  :  he  alfo  told  what  was  the  Lord  Mayor's 
Lam.'m.S.  errand  both  to  the  King  and  his  -Son 
44.  Emmanuel.    But  the  Prince  would  not 

come  down, nor  admit  that  the  gate  mould  be  <  pen- 
cd  to  him  ;  but  fent  him  an  anfwer  to  this  effect  : 
"They  have  turned  their  back  unto  me,  and  not 
Jtr.  ii.  27,  their  face  ;  but  now,  in  the  time  of 
28.  their  trouble,  they   fay  to  me,    Arife 

j4  dreadful  and  (a\e  us.  But  can  they  not  now 
anfwer.  go  to  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  to  whom 
they  went  when  they  turned  from  me,  and  make 
him  their  leader,  their  lord,  and  their  protector  ? 
why  now  in  their  trouble  do  they  vilit  me,  ilnce 
in  their  profperity  they  went  affray  ?"- 

This  anfwer  made  my  Lord  Mayor  look   black 
j  p   in  the  face  ;  it  troubled,! t  perplexed, 

'  '  it  rent  him  fore  :  and  now  he  began 
again  to  fee  what  it  was  to  be  familiar  with  Dia- 
bolonians,fuch  as  Mr.Carnal  Security  was.  When 
The  Lard  he  faw  that  at  Court(as  yet)there  was 
Mayor  re-  little  help  to  be  expected  either  for 
turns^  and  himfelf  or  friends  in  manfoul,  he  fmote 
how.  upon  his  breft,  and   returned  weeping, 

and  all  the  way  bewailing  the  lamentable  itate  of 
manfoul. 

Well,  when  he  was  come  within   fight    of  the 
Town,  the  elders  and  chief  of  the  people  of  man- 


The    HOLY   WAR,  213 

foul  went  our  at  the  gate  to  meet  him,andtofalute 
him,  and  to  know  how  he  fped  at  Court  ;  but  he 
told  them  his  tale  in  fo  doleful  a  manner  that  they 
all  cried  out,  and  mourned  and  wept.     Wherefore 

cri  a  *  r  they  threw  afhes  and  dufl  upon  their 
The  [late  of  ,      J,  ,  r    1    1     u  t.  • 

i\/r  r  j  heads,  and  put  lackcloth  upon  their 
Manfoul        1.  jr.       '  •  fcr»  1 

J  Joins,  and  went  crying  out    through- 

out the  Townofmanfoul  ;  the  which, 
when  the  reil  of  the  Townsfolk  faw,  they  all 
The  whole  mourned  and  wept.  This,  therefore, 
Town  caft  was  a  day  cf  rebuke  and  troub!e,and  of 
down.  anguifh,  to  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and 
alfo  of  great  diftrefs. 

After  fome  time,  when  they  had  fomewhat  re- 
Tbey  con-  frained  themfelves,  they  came  together 
fult  again  to  confult  again  what  by  than  was  yec 
Mr.God/y-xo  be  done  ;  and  they  afked  advice,. 
fear's  ad-  as  fhey  did  before,  of  that  reverend 
vice.  M/.  Godlyfear,  who   told    them,    that 

there  was  no  way  better  than  to  do  as  they  had 
done  ;  nor  would  he  that  they  mould  be  difcoura- 
ged  at  all  with  that  they  had  met  with  at  Court, 
yea,  tho'  feveral  of  their  petitions  fhould  be  an- 
fwered  with  nought  but  filence  or  rebuke.  For, 
faid  he,  it  is  the  way  of  the  wife  Shaddai  to  make 
men  wait  and  to  exercife  patience  ;  and  it  mould 
be  the  way  of  them  in  want  to  be  willing  to  it  ay 
bis  leifure. 

Then  they  took  courage,  and  fent  again  and 
again,  and,  again  and  again  :  for  there  was  not 
now  one  day,  nor  an  hour,  that  went  over  man-- 
Behold  the  foul's  head  wherein  a  man  might  not 
work  of  a  have  met  upon  the  road  one  or  other 
backjlidingxi&mg  pod,  founding  the  horn  from 
faint  a-  manfoul  to  the  Court  of  the  King 
wakened,    Shaddai ;  and  all  with  letters  petition- 


n4  The  HOLY    WAR. 

ary  in  behalf  of  (and  for  the  Prince's   return  to) 

manfoul. 

The  road,  I  fay,  was  now  full  of  melTengers  go- 

^        .      ing  and  returning,  and  meeting  one  an- 

t  r   U  *  other,  fome  from  the  Court,   and  fome 

*  '  from  manfoul  ;  and  this  was  the  work 
of  the  miferable  Town  of  manfoul  all  that  long, 
that  iliarp,  that  cold  and  tedious  winter. 

Now,  if  you  have  not  forgot,  you  may  yet  re- 
a  member  that  I  told  you   before,  that 

"  after  Emmanuel  had  taken  manfoul, 
yea,and  after  that  hehad  new-modelled  the  Town, 
there  remained,  in  feveral  lurking  places  of  the 
Corporation,  many  of  the  old  Diabolonians,  that 
either  came  with  the  tyrant  when  he  invaded  and 
took  the  Town,  or  had  been  there  by  reafon  of 
unlawful  mixtures  ;  their  birth  and  breeding,  and 
bringing  up,  and  their  holes,  dens^  and  lurking 
places,  were  in,  under,  or  about,  tffe  wall  of  the 
Town.  Some  of  their  names  are  the  Lord  For- 
nication, the  Lord  Adultery,  the  Lord  Murder, 
the  Lord  Anger,the  Lord  Lafcivioufnefs,the  Lord 
Deceir,  the  Lord  Evil-eye,  the  Lord  Blafphemy, 
and  that  horrible  villain  the  old  and  dangerous 
Lord  Covetoufnefs.  Thefe  fas  I  told  you)  with 
many  more,  had  yet  their  abode  in  the  Town  of 
manfoul, and  that  after  that  Emmanuel  had  driven 
their  prince  Diabolus  out  of  the  Caftle. 

Againft  thefe  the  good  Prince  did  grant  a  com- 
ihiffion  to  the  Lord  Willbewill  and  others,  yea,to 
the  whole  Town  of  manfoul,  to  feek,  take,fecure, 
and  deflroy,  any,  or  all  that  they  could  lay  hands 
on  ;  for  that  they  were  Diabolonians  by  nature, 
enemies  to  the  Prince,  and  thofe  that  fought  to 
ruin  the  blefTed  Town  of  manfoul.  But  the  Town 
Manfoul  did  not  purfue  this  warrant,  but  neg- 
bce&ed  not  lected  to  look  after,  to   appreherid,    to 


The    HOLY   WAR,  '±tf 

*  the  Prince1!  fecure,  and  to  deftroy  thefe  Diabolo- 
caution  not  nians.  Wherefore  what  do  thefe  vil- 
fut  his  com-  lains  but,  by  degrees,  take  courage  to 
mijfton  into  put  forth  their  heads,  and  to  fhew 
execution,  themfelves  to  the  inhabitants  of  the 
Town  ?  Yea,  and,  as  I  was  told,  fome  of  the  men 
of  man-foul  grew  too  familiar  with  fome  of  them, 
to  the  forrow  of  the  Corporation,  as  you  yet  will 
hear  more  of  in  time  and  place. 

Well,  when  the  Diabolonian  lords  that  were  left 
perceived  that  manfoul  had,  throTinning  offended 
Emmanuel  theirPrince,and  that  he  had  withdrawn 
himfelf  and  was  gone,  what  do  they  but  plot  the 
The  Dia-  ruin  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  So  up- 
holonians  on  a  time  they  met  together  at  the 
fiot  :  hold  of  one  Mr.  Mifchief,  who  alfo  was 

a  Diabolonian,  and  there  confulted  how  they  might 
deliver  upmanfoul  into  the  hands, of  Diabolus  again. 
Now  fome  advifed  one  way,and  fomeanother,every 
man  according  tohis  own  liking.  At  kit  my  Lord 
Lafcivioufnefs  propounded,  whether  it  might  not 
be  belt,  in  tbe-firft  place,  for  fome  of  thofe  that 
were  Diabolonians  in  manfoul,  to  adventure  to 
offer  themfelves  for  fervants  to  fome  of  the  natives 
of  the  Town  ;  for,  fa  id  he,  if  they  do  fo,  and  man- 
foul (hall  accept  of  them,  they  may  for  us,  and  for 
Diabolus  our  lord,  make  the  taking  of  the  Town 
of  manfoul  more  eafy  than  otherwise  it  would  be* 
But  then  ftood  up  the  Lord  Murder,and  faid,  This 
may  not  be  done  at  this  time,  for  manfoul  is  now 
in  a  kind  of  rage,  becaufe  by  our  friend  Mr. Carnal 
Security  flie  hath  been  once  infnared  already,  and 
made  to  offend  againft  her  Prince  ;  and  how  (halt 
fhe  reconcile  herfelf  umo  her  Lord  again  but  by 
the  heads  of  thefe  men?  Befides,wcknow  that  they, 
have  in  commiffion  to  take  and  flty  us  wherever 
they  fliall  find  us ;  let  us  therefore  be  wjfe as  foxes: 


2i6  The    HOLY   WAR. 

when  wearc  dead  we  can  do  them  no  hurt,  but- 
while  we  live  we  may.  Thus, when  they  had  tofT- 
ed  the  matter  to  and  fro,  they  jointly  agreed  that 
cri  r  t  a  letter  mould  forthwith  be  fent  away 
H  11  f      to  Diabolus  in  their  name,  by  which 

°d    e  l^e  ^ate  °^  r^e  Town   °f  manfouI 

mould  be  (hewed  him,  and  how  much 

it  is  under  the  frowns  of  their  Prince  ;  we    may 

alfo,  faid  fome,  let  him  know  our  intentions,   and 

afk  of  him  his  advice  in  the  cafe. 

So  a  letter  wasprefently  framed,  the  contents 
of  which  was  thus  : 

To  our  great  Lord,  the  Prince  Diabolus,  dwelling 
below  in  the  infernal  Cave. 

The  copy  ur\  Great  Father  and  mighty  Prince 
cf  their  v-^Diabolus,  we  the  true  Diabolo- 
letter.  nians,  yet  remaining  in  the  rebellious 
Town  of  manfoul, having  received  our  beings  from 
thee,  and  our  nourifhment  at  thy  hands,  cannot, 
with  content  and  quiet,  endure  to  beholfl,  as  wc 
do  this  day,  how  thou  art  difpraifed,  difgracedj 
and  reproached,  among  the  inhabitants  of  this 
Town  ;  nor  is  thy  long  abfence  at  all  delightful  to 
us,  becaufe  greatly  to  our  detriment. 

"The  reafon  of  this  our  writing  unto  our  Lord 
is,  for  that  we  are  not  altogether  without  hope  that 
this  Town  may  become. thy  habitation  again  ;  for 
it  is  greatly  declined  from  its  Prince  Emmanuel, 
and  he  is  uprifen,  and  is  departed  from  them  ;  yea, 
and  though  they  fend,  and  fend,  and  fend,  and 
fend,,  after  him  to  return  to  them,  yet  can  they 
nor  prevail,  nor  get  good  words  from  him. 

'/'There  has  been  alfo  of  late,  and  is  yet  remain- 
ing^ very  great  ficknefs  and  faintings  among  them, 
and  that  not  only  upon  the  poorer  fort  of  the 
Town,  but  upon  the  Lords,   Captains,  and  chief 


^   The  HOLY   WAR.  si/v 

gentry  of  the   place  (we  only  who   are  of  the 
Diabolonians  by  nature  remain    well,  lively,  and 
flrong  ;)  fo  that  through  their  great  tranfgreilion 
on  the  one  hand,  and  their  dangerous  ficknefs  on 
the  other,  we  judge  they  lye  open  to  thy  hand  and 
power.     If  therefore  it  fhall  ftand  with  thy  hor- 
rible cunning,  and  with   the  cunning  of   the  reft 
of  the  princes  with  thee,  to  come  and  make  an. at- 
tempt to  take  manfoul  again,  fend  us   word,   and 
we  fhall  to  our  utmofl  power  be  ready  to  deliver 
it  into  thy  hand.     Or,  if  what  we  have  faid  fhall 
not  by  thy  fatherhood  be  thought   beft  and  moil 
meet  to  be  done,  fend  us  thy  mind  in  a  few  words, 
and  we  are  all  ready  to  follow  thy  counfel,  to  the  / 
hazarding  of  our  lives,  and  what  elfe  we  have. 
"Given  under   our  hands,  after   a  clofe   con- 
futation at  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Mifchief,  who 
yet  is  alive,  and  hath  his   place  in  our  de- 
firable  Town  of  manfoul." 

When  Mr. Profane  (for  he  was  the  carrier)  was  . 
Mr.  Profane  come  with  his  letter  to  Hellgate-hill, 
carries-tke       he  knocked  at  the  braien  gate  for  en- 
letter  to  trance.  ThendidCerberustheporter 

Hel/gate-  (forheisthekeeperofthatgate)  open 
hill,  and  toMr.Profane,to whom  hedelivered 

frefents  it  hisfetter,  which  he  had  brought  from 
to  Cerberus  the  Diabolonians  in  manfoul.  So  he 
the  porter.  carried  it  in,  andprefentedit  to  Dia~ 
bolus  his  lord  ;  and  faid,  Tidings  my  Lord  from 
manfoul,  and  from  our  trufly  friends  there. 

Then  came  together  from  all  places  of  the   den 
Beelzebub,  Lucifer,Apollyon,  with  the  reft  of  the 
rabblement  there,  to  hear  what   news  from  man- 
foul.    So  the  letter  was  broken  up  and   read,  and  - 
Cerberus  he  flood  by.  When  the  letter  was  openly  . 
read,  and  the  contents  thereof  fpread  into  all  the  ; 
T 


2i8-  The    HOLY   WAR. 

corners  of  the  den,  command  was  given,  that, 
Dead  without   let  or  flop,    Dead-man's-bell 

man's-bell,  mould  be  rung  for  joy.  So  the  bell 
and  how  it  was  rung,  and  the  princes  rejoiced 
tuent,  that  manfoul  was  like  to  come  to  ruin. 

Now  the  clapper  of  the  bell  went,  "  The  Town  of 
manfoul  is  coming  with  us  to  dwell ;  make  room 
,  for  the  Town  of  manfoul."  This  bell  therefore 
they  did  ring,  becaufe  they  did  hope  that  they 
fliall  have  manfoul  again. 

Now,  when  they  had  performed  this  their  hor- 
rible ceremony,  they  got  together  again  to  confult 
what  anfwer  to  fend  to  their  friends  in  manfoul  • 
and  fome  advifed  one  thing,   and  fome  another  ; 
'  but  at  length,  becaufe  the  bufinefs  required  hafte, 
th^y  left  the  whole   management  to   the   prince 
Diabolus,  judging   him   the  moil  proper  lord  of 
the  place.     So  he  drew  up  a  letter  as  he  thought 
nt,  in  anfwer  to  what  Mr.  Profane  had   brought, 
,  and  fent  it  to  the  Diabolonians  that  did   dwell  in 
'manfoul,  by  the  fame  hand  that  had  brought  theirs 
i  XQ  him.     And  this  was  the  contents  thereof. 

To  our  offspring,  the  high  and  mighty  Diabolo- 
nians, that  yet  dwell  in  the  Town  of  Manfoul \ 
Diabolus,  the  great  prince  of  Manfoul,  wifheth 
a  profperous  iffue  and  conclujion  of  tbefe  many 
brave  enterprifes,  confpiracies,  anddefigns,  that 
you,  of  your  love  and  refpeft  to  our  honour,  have 
in  your  hearts  to  attempt  to  do  a  gain  ft  Manfoul, 

BELOVED  children  and  difciples,  my  Lord 
Fornification,Adultery,and  the  reft, we  have 
here  in  our  defolate  den  received,  to  our  higheil 
joy  and  content,  your  welcome  Ietter,by  the  hand 
of  our  truily  Mr.  Profane.  And,  to  mew  how  ac- 
ceptable your  tidings  were,  wc  rang  out  our  bell 
for  gladnefs ;  for  we  rejoiced  .  c  could. 


The  HOLY  WAR. 
when  we  perceived  that  yet  we  had  friends  in  man- 
foul,  and  iuch  as  fought  our  honour  and  revenge 
in  the  ruin  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  We  alfo 
rejoiced  to  hear  that  they  are  in  a  degenerated 
condition, and  that  they  have  offended  their  Prince, 
and  that  he  is  gone.  Their  llcknefs  alfo  pleafed 
us,  as  docs  alfo  your  health,  might,  and  itrength. 
Glad  alfo  would  we  be,  right  horribly  beloved, 
could  we  get  this  Town  into  our  clutches  again  : 
nor  will  we  be  fparing  of  (pending  oar  wir,  our 
cunning,our  craft,  and  hellifh  inventions;  to  bring 
to  a  wifhed  conclusion  this  your  brave  beginning 
in  order  thereto-  i 

"And  take  this  for  your  comfort  (our  birth  and' 
our  offspring)  that,  fhall  we  again  furprife  it  and 
take  it,  we  will  attempt  to  put  all  your  foes  to 
the  fword,  and  will  make  you  the  great  lords  and 
captains  of  the  place.  Nor  need  you  fear  (if  ever 
we  get  it  again)  that  we,  after  that,  fhall  be  ax(t 
out  any  more  ;  for  we  will  come  with  more 
flrength,snd  fo  lay  far  more  fail  hold,  than  at  the 
firft  we  did.  Befides,  it  is  the  law  of  that  Prince 
Mutt.  xii.  that  now  they  own,  that,  if  we  get 
43,44,45.  them  a  fecond  time,  they  fhall  be  ours;. 
for  ever, 

"Do  you  therefore,  our  truiTy  Diabolonians,, 
yet  more  pry  into,  and  endeavour  to  fpy  out,  the 
weaknefs  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  We  alfo  would' 
that  you  yourfelves  do  attempt  to  weaken  therir 
more  and  more.  Send  us  word  alfo  by  what 
means  you  think  we  had  beft  attempt  the  regain- 
ing thereof;  viz.  whether  by  perfuafion  to,,  a.  vain 
and  loofe  life  ;  or,  whether  by  tempting  them  to 
doubt  and  defpair  ;  or,  whether  by  blowing  up  of 
the  Town  by  the  gun-powder  of  pride  and  letf- 
conceit.  Do  you  alfo,  O  ye  brave  Diabolonian,<I 
and  true  fons  of  the  Pit,  be  always  in  a  readinefs 
T  2 


220  The   HO  L  Y    WAR. 

to  make  a  mofl  hideous  afTault  within,  when  we 
fhall  be  ready  to  itorm  it  without.  Now  fpeed  you 
in  your  project,  and  we  in  our  deflres,  the  utmofl 
power  of  our  gates  ;  which  is  the  wifli  of  your 
great  Diabolus,  manfoul's  enemy,  and  him  that 
trembles  when  he  thinks  of  judgment  to  come. 
All  that  the  Pit  can  confer  we  wifh  upon  you,and 
fo  we  clofe  up  our  letter. 

"Given  at  the  Pit's  mouth,  by  the  joint  confent 
of  all  the  princes  of  darknefs,  to  be  fent  (to 
the  force  and  power  that  we  have  yet  remain- 
ing in  manfoul)  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Profane, 

By  me  Diabolus. 
This  letter,  as  we  faid,  was  fent  to  manfoul,  to 
the  Diabolonians  that  yet  remained  there, and  that 
rp?  r     yet    inhabited  the  wall,    from   the   dark 
•P'    dungeon  of  Diabolus,  by  the  hand  of   Mr. 
Profane,by  whom  they  alfo  in  manfoul  fent  theirs 
to  the  Pit.     Now  when   this  Mr.    Profane   had 
Profane        made  his    return,   and  was  come   to 
comes  home  manfoul  again,  he  went  and    came,  as 
■again.  he  was  wont, to  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Mif- 

.  chief  \  for  there  was  the  conclave,  and  the   place 
where  the  contrivers  were  met.  Now,when  they 
faw  that  their  mefTenger  was  returned  .fefe    and 
found,  they  were    greatly  gladed  thereat.     Then 
he  prefented  them  his  letter  which  he  had  brought 
from  Diabolus  for  them;  the  which,  when    they 
had  read  and  conlidered,  did  much   augment  their 
gfadnefs.     They  afked  him  after  the   welfare   of 
their  friends, as  how  their  Lord  Diabolus,  Lucifer, 
and  Beelzebub  did,  with  the  reft  of  thole    of  the 
;  den.   To  which  this  Profane  made  anfwer,"Well, 
\weli,  my  Lords  ;  they  are  well,  even  as   well    as 
kan  be  in  their  place.  They  alfo,  faid  he,  did  ring 
jlfor  joy  at  reading  £>f  your  letter,  as  you  will   per- 
ceive by  this,  when  you  read  it." 


The    HOLY    W  A  R.  321 

Now,  as  was  faid,  when  they  had  read  their 
letter,  and  perceived  that  it  encouraged  them  in 
their  #ork,  they  fell  to  their  way  of  contriving 
again,  viz.  how  they  might  complete  their  Diabo- 
lonian  deiign  upon  manibul.  And  the  tirft  thing 
that  they  agreed  upon  was,  to  keep  all  things 
from  manfoul  as  clofe  as  they  could. 

Let  it  not  be  k«own,  let  not  manfoul  be  ac- 
quainted with  what  we  deiign  againll  it.  The 
next  thing  was,how,or  by  what  means, they  mould 
try  to  bring  to  pafs  the  ruin  and  overthrow  of 
manfoul  ;  and  one  faid  after  this  manner,  and  ano- 
ther faid  after  that.  Then  flood  up  Mr.  Deceir, 
and  faid,  My  right  Diabolonian  friends,  our  lords, 
and  the  high  .ones  of  the  deep  dungeon,  do  pro- 
pound unto  us  thefe  three  ways  : 

1.  Whteher  we  hadbeft  to  feek  its  ruin  by  ma- 
king of  manfoul  loofe  and  vain. 

2.  Or  whether  by  driving  them  to  doubt  and 
defpair. 

3.  Or  whether  by  endeavouring  to  blow  them, 
up  by  the  gun-powder  of  pride  and  felf-conceir. 

Now,  I  think,  if  we  fhall  tempt  them  to  pride. 
Take  heedy  that  may    do   fomething  ;  and,   if  we  : 
Manfoul.     tempt  them  to  wantonnefs,    that   may 
help.     But,  in  my  mind,  if  we  could  drive    them 
into  defparation,that  would  knock  the  nail  on  the 
head  \  for  then  we  fhould  have  them,  in  the  firlt 
place,  queflion  the  truth  of  the  love  of  the  heart' 
of  their  Prince  towards  them, and  that  will  difguft 
him  much.   This,if  it  works  well,  will  make  theni 
leave  off  quickly  their  way  offending  petitions  to 
him  ;  then  farewel   earnerl  folicitations  for  help 
and  fupply  ;  for  then  this  conclusion  lyes  natural- 
ly before  tfiem,  "As  good  do  nothing,  as  do  to  n6 
purpofe."     So  to  Mr.  Deceit   they  unanimously, 
did  confent. 
T3 


222  The    HOLY    WAR.     . 

Then  the  next  queftion  was,  But  how  fhall  we 
cj>  ,  \  ,  do  to  bring  this  our  project  to  pafs  ? 
j  j  r  /  '  And  it  was  anfwered  by  the  (?-o{c:  gen- 
■*  '  tleman,that  this  might  be  the  belt  way 
to  do  it,  "Even  let,"  quoth  he,  "  fo  many  of  our 
friends  as  are  willing  to  venture  themfelves  for 
the  promoting  of  their  prince's  caufe,  difguife 
themfelves  with  apparel,  change  their  names,  and 
go  into  the  market  like  far-country-men, and  prof- 
fer to  let  themfelves  for  fervants  to  the  famous 
Town  of  manfoul,  and  let  them  pretend  to  do  for 
their  mailers  as  beneficially  as  may  be  ;  for  by  fo 
doing  they  may,  if  manfoulfhall  hire  them,  in  a 
little  time  fo  corrupt  and  defile  the  Corporation, 
that  her  now  Prince  fhall  be  not  only  further  of- 
fended with  them,  but,  in  conclufion,  fhall  fpue 
them  out  of  his  mouth.  And,  when  this  is  done, 
our  prince  Diabolus  fhall  prey  upon  them  with 
eafe  :  yea,  of  themfelves  they  fhall  fall  into  the 
mouth  of  the  eater." 

This  project  was  no  fooner  propounded,  but  was 
as  highly  accepted,  and  forward  were  all  Diabo- 
Jonians  now  to  engage  in  fo  delicate  an  enterprife: 
but  it  was  not  thought  fit  that  all  mould  do  this  : 
T  ■■'  h  J  wherefore  they  pitched  upon  two  or 
M  tin  I  '  tnree>  namely,  the  Lord  Covetbuf- 
^  '  nefs,  the  Lord  Lafcivioufnefs,  and  the 
Lord  Anger.  The  Lord  Covetoufnefs  called  him- 
felf  by  the  name  of  Prudent-thrifty  ;  the  Lord 
Lafcivioufnefs  called  himfelf  by  the  name  of  Harm- 
lefs-mirth,  and  the  Lord  Anger  called  himfelf  by 
rhe  name  of  Good-zeal. 

So,  upon  a  market-day,  they  came  into  the 
market-place  ;  three  luity  fellows  they  were  to  look 
pn,  and  they  were  clothed  in  beeps'  rufTer, which 
was  alio  now  in  a  manner  as   white  as  were   the 


The    HOLY    WAR.  •     223 

Take  heed,  white  robes  of  the  men  ofmanfoul. 
ManfouL  Now  the  men  could  ipeak  the  language 
of  manfoul  well.  So  when  they  were  come  into 
the  market-place,  and  had  offered  to  letthemfelves 
to  the  townlmen,  they  were  prefently  taken  up  ; 
for  they  afked  but  little  wages,  and  promifed  to 
-dotheir  mailers  great  fervice. 

Mr.  Mind  hired  Prudent-thrifty,and  Mr.  Godly- 
fear  hired  Good-zeal.  True,  this  fellow  Harmlefs- 
mirth  did  hang  a  little  on  hand,  and  could  not  fo 
foon  get  him  a  mailer  as  the  others  did,  becaufe 
Take  heed,  the  Town  ofmanfoul  was  no  win  Lent; 
Manfoul.  but  after  a  while,  becaufe  Lent  was  al- 
moil  out,  the  Lord  Willbewill  hired  Harmlefs- 
mirth  to  be  both  his  waiting-man  and  his  lacquey  : 
and  thus  they  got  them  mailers. 

Thefe  villains,  now  being  got  thus  far  into  the 
houfes  of  the  men  of  manfoul, quickly  began  to  do 
great  mifchief  therein  ;  for  being  filthy, arch, and 
f]y,they  quickly  corrupted  thefamilies  where  they 
were  ;  yea,  they  tainted  their  mailers  much,  efpe- 
cially  this  Prudent-thrifty, andhim  they  call  Harm- 
lefs-mirth.  True,  he  that  went  under  the  vizor  of 
Good-zeal  was  not  fo  well  liked  by  his  ma(ler,for 
he  quickly  found  that  he  was  but  a  counterfeit 
rafcal  ;  the  which  when  the  fellow  perceived, with 
fpeed  he  made  hisefcape  from  the  houfe,  or  I  doubt 
not  but  his  mailer  had  hanged  him. 

Well,  when  thefe  vagabonds  had  thus  far  car- 
ried on  their  defign,  and  had  corrupted  the  Town 
as  much  as  they  could, in  the  next  place  they  con- 
iidered  with  themfelves  at  what  time  their  prince 
Diabolus  wit  hour,  and  themfelves  wit  bin  the  Town, 
ihould  make  an  attempt  to  feize  upon  manfoul  ; 
A  day  o/*and  they  all  agreed  upon  this,  that  a 
ivQrd/y  market-day .  would  be  belt"  for  that 
cumber,    work  ;    for  why  I    then  will  the  t^wnf- 


224    *         The   HOLY    WAR. 

folk  be  bufy  in  their  ways  :.  and  always  take  this 
for  a  rule,  When  people  are  moil  bufy  in  the  world, 
they  leaft  fear  a  furprife.  We  alfo  then,faid  they, 
fhall  be  able  with  lefs  fufpicion  to  gather  our- 
T  k  1  A  fe*ves  together  for  the  work  of  our 
n/rrt7  friends  and  lords  ;  yea,  and  in  fiich  a 
'  '  *  day,  if  we  fhall  attempt  our  work, 
and  mifs  it,  we  may,  when  they  fhall  give  us  the 
rout,  the  better  hide  ourfelves  in  the  crowd  and 
efcape. 

Thele  things  being  thus  far  agreed  upon  by 
them,  they  wrote  another  letter  to  Diabolus,  and 
fent  it  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Profane,the  contents  of 
which  were  thus  : 

The  Lords  of  Loofenefs  fend  to  the  great  and  high 
Diabolus,  from    our  dens,    caves,  holes,    and 
flrongholds,  in.  and  about  the  wall  of  the  Town 
of  Man  foul ,  greeting. 

"/^\UR  great  Lord,  and  the  nourifher  of  our 
^-^  lives,  Diabolus  ;  how  glad  we  were  when 
we  heard  of  your  fatherhood's  readinefs  to  com- 
ply with  us,  and  help  forward  our  deflgn,  in  our 
„  r.  ^  attempts  to  ruin  manfoul,  none  can 
r°  ',  '  tell  but  thofe  who,as  we,  do  fet  them- 

felves  againft  all  appearance   of  good, 
when  and  wherefoever  we  find  it. 

"  Touching  the  encouragement  thatyour  Great- 
nefs  is  pleafed  to  give  us  to  continue  to  devife, 
contrive,  and  ftudy  the  utter  defolation  of  man- 
foul, that- we  are  not  folicitous  about;  tor  we 
know  right  well  that  it  cannot  but  be.pleafing 
and  profitable  to  us  to  fee  our  enemies,  and  them 
that  feek  our  lives,  to  die  at  our  feet,  or  flee  be- 
fore us.  We,  therefore,  are  ft  HI  contriving,  and 
that  to  the  bell  of  our  cunning,  to  make  this  work 
jnoil  facile  and  eafy  to  your  lordfhips,  and  10  u 


The    HOLY    WAR.  225- 

"Frift,  we  confidered  of  that  mofl  hcllifhly  cun- 

j     ,       .   ning,     compared,     threefold    project, 

J?  r°  ^'that  by  you  was  propounded    to   us    in 

anJ0U  \  your  laft  ;    and   have  concluded,   that 

,  though  to  blow  them  up  with  the  gun-powder  of 

pride  would  do  well,  and  to  do   it,    by    tempting 

them  to  be  loofe  and  vain,  will  helpon  ;  yet  to  con- 

trive  to  bring  them  into  the  gulph  of  defperation, 

we  think,  will  do  beft  of  all.     Now  we,  who  are 

ar  your  beck,  have  thought  of  two  ways  to  do  this: 

Firft,  we,  for  our  parts,  will  make  them  as  vile  as 

we  can,  and  then  you  with  us  at  a  time  appointed, 

fhall  be  ready  to  fall  upon  them  with  the   utmoit 

force.     And,  of  all  the  nations  that  are  at   your 

whittle,  we  think  that  an  army  of  Doubters  may  be 

mofl  likely  to  attack  and  overcome  the  Town  of 

tj'-i   j     j  manfoul.       Thus    fhall    we  overcome 

M  nf  '/'  l'ie^e  cnermes  5  e^e  tne  Pic  ma^  °Pen 
^  '  her  mouth  upon  them,  and  Defpera- 
tion mall  thruft  them  down  into  it.  We  havealfo, 
to  effect  this  fo-much-by-us-defired  defign,  fent  al- 
ready three  of  our  trufty  Diabolonians  among 
them  ;  they  are  difguifed.  in  garb,  they  have 
changed  their  names, andare  now  accepted  of  them, 
to  wit,  Covetoufnefs,  Lafcivioufnefs,  and  Anger. 
The  name  of  Covetoufnefs  is  changed  to  Prudent- 
thrifty  ;  and  him  Mr.  Mind  has  hired, -and  is  al- 
moft  become  as  bad  as  our  friend.  Lafciviouf- 
nefs has  changed  his  name  to  Harmlefs-mirth,  and 
he  is  got  to  be  the  Lord  WillbewilTs  lacquey,  but 
,  he  has  made  his  mailer  very  wanton.  Anger 
;  changed  his  name  into  Good-zeal,  and  was  ertter- 
'  tained  byMr.  Godlyfear  ;  but  the  peevifholdgen- 
tleinan  took  pepper  in  the  nofe,  and  turned  our 
companion  out  of  his  Jioufe  :  nay,  he  has  inform- 
ed us  firrce,  that  he  ran  away  from  him,  or  elfe  his 
old  mafter  had  hanged  him  up  for  his  labour. 


226  The    HOLY    WAR. 

"Now  thefe  have  much  helped  forward  our 
J    h  work  and   defign  upon  manfoui  ;  for,  i 

™  r°  \  \   notwithstanding  the  fpite  and  quarrel- ! 

anJ0U  '  fome  temper  of  the  old  gentleman  laft  j 
mentioned,  the  other  two  play  their  bufinefs  well,  I 
and  are  like  to  ripen  the  work  apace. 

"Our  next  project  is,  that  it  be  concluded,  that 
you  come  upon  the  Town  upon  a  market-day,  and 
that  when  they  are  upon  the  heat  of  their  bufinefs ; 
cj>  ,  ,  ,  for  then  to  be  fure  they  will  be  moll 
M  r  /  '  iecure,  and  lead  think  that  an  afTault 
/  •  will  be  made  upon  them.  They  will 
alfo  at  fuch  a  time  be  lefs  able  to  defend  -them- 
felves,  and  to  offend  you  in  the  profecution  of  our 
defign.  And  we,  your  truity  (and  weare  fure  your 
beloved)  ones,  mail,  when  you  fhall  make  your 
furious  afTault  without,  be  ready  to  fecond  the 
bufinefs  within.  So  fhall  we  in  all  likelihood  ba 
able  to  put  manfoui  to  utter  confufion,  and  to 
fwallow  them  up  before  they  can  come  to  thenv 
felves.  If  your  ferpentine  heads,  moll  fubtile 
dragons,  and  our  highly  efteemed  lords,  can  find 
out  a  better  way  than  this,  let  us  quickly  know 
your  minds. 

"To  the  monfters  of  the  infernal  Cave,  from 
the  houfe  of  Mr.  Mifchief  in  manfoui,  by  the 
hand  of  Mr.  Profane." 

Now,  all  the  while  that  the  raging  runagates 
The  fad  and  hellifh  Diabolonians  were  thus 
ftate  of  contriving  the  ruin  of  the  Town  of 
Manfonl.  manfoui,  they,  to  wit,  the  poor  Town 
itfelf,  was  in  a  fad  and  woeful  cafe,  partly  becaufe 
they  had  fo  grievoufly  offended  Shaddai  and  his 
Son,  and  partly  becaufe  that  the  enemies  thereby 
got  ftrength  within  them  afrcfh;  and  alfo  becaufe, 
tho'  they  had  by  many  petitions  made  fuit  to  the 
Prince  Emmanuel,  and  to  his  Father  Slnddai   by 


The   HOLY   WAR.  227 

him,  for  their  pardon  and  favour,  yet  hitherto  ob- 
tained they  not  one  fmile  ;  but  contrariwife,  thro' 
the  craft  and  fubtilty  of  the  domeftic  Diabolo- 
nians,  their  cloud  was  made  to  grow  blacker  and 
blacker,  and  their  Emmanuel  to  fland  at  further 
diftance. 

The  ficknefs  alfo  did  flill  greatly  rage  in  man- 
foul,  both  among  the  captains  and  the  inhabitants 
of  theTown ;  theirenemies,and  their  enemies  only, 
were  now  lively  and  llrong,  and  like  to  become 
the  head,  whilit  manfoul  was  made  the  tail. 

By  this  time  the  letter  laft  mentioned,  that  was 
Profane  ar-  written  by  the  Diabolonians  that  yet 
tiroes  at  lurked  in  the  town  of  manfoul,  was 
Hellgate-  conveyed  to  Diabolus  in  the  black 
hill.  Den,  .by  the   hand  of  Mr.  Profane. 

He  carried  the  letter  by  Hellgate-hill  as  afore, 
and  conveyed  it  by  Cerberus  to  his  lord. 

But,  when  Cerberus  and  Mr.  Profane  did  meet, 
they  were  prefemly  as  great  as  beggars  ;  and  thus 
they  fell  into  difcourfe  about  manfoul,  and  about 
the  project  againfl  her. 

Cer.  "Ah,  old  friend,"  quoth  Cerberus,  "art 
Talk  between  thou  come  to  Hellgate-hill  again  ? 
him  and  Cer-  By  St.  Mary,  I  am  glad  to  fee 
berus  thee." 

Prof.  "Yes,  my  lord,  I  am  come  again  about 
the  concerns  of  the  Town  of  manfoul." 

Cer.  Prithee  tell  me  what  condition  is  that 
Town  of  manfoul  in  at  prefent  ?" 

Prof  In  a  brave  condition,  my  lord,  for  us  and 

for  my  lords,  the  lords  of  this  place,    I  trow  ;  for 

I  they  are  greatly  decayed  as  to  godlincfs,  and  that 

is  as  well  as  our  hearts   can   wifh  ;    their  Lord  is 

t  greatly  out  with  them,  and  that  doth   alfo  pleafe 

!  us  well  ;  we  have  already  alfo  a  foot  in  their  difli  > 

for  our  Diabolonian   friends  are  laid  in  their  bo- 


228  The    HOLY    WAR. 

foms  ;  and  what  do  we  Jack  but  to  be  mailers  of 
the  place  ?  Befides,  our  trufly  friends  in  manfonl 
are  daily  plotting  to  betray  it  to  the  Lords  of  this 
Town ;  alibtheficknefs  rages  bitterly  among  them; 
and  that  which  makes  up  all,  we  hope  at  laft  to 
prevail." 

Cerb.  Then  faid  the  dog  of  Hellgate,  ■  "No 
time  like  this  to  atfault  them  :  I  wifh  that  the  en- 
terprife  be  followed  dole,  and  that  the  fuccefs  de- 
flred  may  be  foon  effected  ;  yea,  I  wifh  it  for 
the  poor  Diabolonians'  fakes,  that  live  in  the  con- 
tinual fear  of  their  lives  in  that  traiteroys  Town 
of  manfoul." 

Prof.  "The  contrivance  is  almoll  finiflied,  the 
lords  in  manfoul  that  are  Diabolonians  are  at  it 
day  and  night ;  and  the  other  are  like  filly  doves, 
they  want  heart  to  be  concerned  with  their  Hate, 
and  to  confider  that  ruin  is  at  hand.  Befides, 
you  may,  yea,  mull,  think,  when  you  put  all 
things  together,  that  there  are  many  reafons  that 
prevail  with  Diabolus  to  make  what  hafte  he  can." 
Cerb.  "Thou  hall  faid  as  it  is  ;  I  am  glad  things 
are  at  this  pafs.  Go  in,  my  brave  Profane,  to  my 
lords  ;  they  will  give  thee  for  thy  welcome  as 
good  a  coranto  as  the  whole  of  this  kingdom  will 
afford.     I  have  fent  thy  letter  in  already." 

Then  Mr.  Profane  went  into  the  den,  and  ?iis 
Profane7 s  lord  Diabolus  met  him,  and  faluted 
entertain-  him  with,  Welcome,  my  trully  fervanr, 
went.  I  have  been  made  glad  with  thy  letter. 

The  reft  of  the  lords  of  the  Pit  gave  him  a'lfo  their 
Mutations.-.  Then  Profane, after  obeiiance  made 
to  them  all,faid,"Let  manfoul  be  given  to  my  lord 
Diabolus,  and  let  him  be  her.  king  for  ever." 
And  with  that  the  hollow  belly  and  yawning 
gorge  of  hell  gave  fo  loud  and  hideous  a  •  groan, 
(for  that  is  the  mufic  of  that  place)  that  it   made 


The    HOLY    WAR,  229 

the- mountains  about  it  totter,  as  if  they   would 
fall  in  pieces. 

Now,  after  they  hacj  read  and  confidered  the 
letter,  they  confulted  what  anfwer  to  return  ;  and 
the  firfl  that  did  fpeak  to  it  was  Lucifer. 

Lucif.  Then  faid  he,  'The  firfl  project  of  the 
They  cqji-  Diabolonians  in  manfoul  is  like  to  be 
fult  -what  lucky,  and  to  take  ;  to  wit,  that  they 
anfwer  to  will,  by  all  the  ways  and  means  they 
give  to  the  can,  make  manfoul  yet  more  vile  and 
letter.  filthy  ;  no  way  to  deftroy  a  foul   like 

Numb.  31.  this;  this  isprobatumejt ;  our  old  friend 
16  Rev.  2.  Balaam  went  this  way   and   profpered' 
14.  many  years  ago  :  let   this,    therefore, 

fland  with  us  as  a  maxim,  and  be  to  Diabolonians 
for  a  general  rule  in  all  ages;  for  nothing  can  make 
this  fail  but  grace,  in  which  I  would   hope   that. 
this  Town  has  no   fhare.     But  whether   to  fall 
Cumber-      upon  them  on  a  market  day,  becaufe'ot" • 
merits  are   their  cumber  in  bufinefs,  that!  would 
dangerous,  mould  be  under  debate.     And   there 
is  more  reafon  why  this  head   fhould   be   debated 
than  why  fome  other  mould,  becaufe   upon   this 
will  turn  the  whole  of  what  we  fhall  attempt.     If 
we  time  not  our  bufinefs  well,  our  whole   proje-ft*' 
may  fail.    Our  friends  the  Diabolonians  fay,  that  a: 
market-day  is  heft  ;  for  then  will  manfoul  be  mofr  ' 
-  bufy,  and  have  feweft  thoughts  of  a  furprife.    But . 
Thev  had    wnaC  ^  aJ»°  tney  fhould    double  their 
needdoit    &uarc*s  on  thofe   days?  and  methinks 
nature  and  reafon   fhould   teach   them 
to  doit ;  and  what  if  they  mould  keep  fuch  a  watch 
on  tiro fe  days  as  the   neceffity   of  their    prefe.itt. 
cafe  doth  require  ?  yea,  wh at  if  their  nun  fhould: 
be  always  in  arms  on  thofe  days  ?  Then  you  ir,' 
my  lords,  be  difappointed  in  your   attempts,   and- 

U 


-o  The    HOLY   W  A  R. 

may  bring  our   friends   in   the   Town   to  utter 

danger  of  unavoidable  ruin." 

Bee/.  Then  laid  the  great.Beelzebub,  "There  is 
fomething  in  what  my  lord  hath  faid,  but  his 
conjecture  may  or  may  not  fall  out  ;  nor  hath  my 
lord  laid  it  down  as  that  which  mutl  not  be  re- 
ceded from  ;  for  1  know  that  he  faid  it  only  to 
provoke  to  a  warm  debate   thereabout.     There- 

A I  (T  f  ^ore  we  mu^  un^er^ai]<J?  if  we  can> 
Ch  n°n  whether  the  town  of  manfoul  has 
^  -*  fuch  fenfe  and  knowledge  of  her  de- 
cayed flate,and  of  the  defign  that  we  have  on  foot 
againft  her,  as  doth  provoke  her  to  fet  watch  and 
ward  at  her  gates,  and  to  double  them  on  mar- 
ket-days. But  if,  after  inquiry  made,  it  fhall  be 
found  that  they  are  aileep,  then  any  day  will  do, 
bat  a  market-day  is  befl  ;  and  this  is  my  judg- 
ment in  this  cafe." 

Diab.  "Then,"  quoth  Diabolus,  "How  mould 
we  know  this  V*  And  it  was  anfwered,  Inquire 
-^.bout  it  at  Mr.  Profane.     So  Profane  was  called 

and  afked  the  queition  ;  and  he  made   anfwer 

.oJlows. 

Prof.  "My  lord,  fo  far  as  I  can  gather,  this 
Prof aKe's    is  at  prefent  the  condition  of  the  Town 

criphn  of  manfoul,  they  are  decayed  in  their 
of  the  fre-  faith  and  love,  Emmanuel  their  Prince 
foof  has  given  them  the  back  ;  they  fend 
M-anfouL  often  by  petition  to  fetch  him  again, 
bat  he  maketh  not  hafte  to  anfwer  their  requeii, 
nor  is  there  much  reformation  among  them." 

Diab.  "I  am  glad  that  they  are  backward  to  a 
reformation ;  but  yet  I  am  afraid  of  their  petition- 

/.  However,  their  ioofeneis  of  life  is  a  fign  that 
rhcrcis  notmuch  heart'  in  what  they  do  ;  and  with- 
out the  heart  things  are  little  worth.  Biugoon,my 
Otttfiere  ;  I  will  divert  you,  my  lords,  nq  longer.'' 


The    HOLY    WAR.  231 

Beeh  "If  the  cafe  be  fo  with  manfoul  as  Mr, 
Profane  has  defcribcd  it  to  be,  it  will  be  no  great 
matter  what  day  we  afTaultic  ;  neither  their  prayers 
nor  their  power  will- do  them  much  fervice." 

jdfolL  When  Beelzebub  had  ended  his  oration. 
Dreadful  then  Apollyon  did  begin  :  "My  opi- 
advice  a  nion,"  laid  he  "concerning  this  mat- 
galnfi  Man-ttx  is,  that  we  go  on  fair  and  foftly, 
not  doing  things  in  a  hurry.  Let  our 
friends  in  manfoul  go  on  It  ill  to  pollute  and  defile 
it,  by  feeking  to  draw  it  more  into  fin  (for 
there  is  nothing  like  fin  to  devour  manfoul)  if 
this  be  done,  and  it  takes  effect,  manfoul  of  iff  elf 
will  leave  off  to  watch,  to  petition,  or  any  thing 
clfe  that  ihould  tend  to  her  fecuiiry  and  fafety  ; 
for  fhe  will  forget  her  Emmanuel, me  will  not  de- 
fire  his  company  ;  ami;  can  me  be  gotten  thus  to 
live, her  Prince  will  not  come  to  her  inhafte.  Our 
trufty  friend  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  with  one  of  his 
tricks,  did  drive  him  out  of  the  Town  ;  and  why- 
may  not  my  Lord  Covetoufnefs,  and  my  Lord 
Lafcivioufnefs,  by  what  they  may  do,  keep  him 
out  of  the  Town  ?  and  this  I  will  tell  you  (not 
becaufe  you  know  it  not)  that  two  or  three  Dia-4 
bolonians,if  entertained  and  countenanced  by  the 
Town  of  manfoul,  will  do  more  to  the  keeping  of. 
Emmanuel  from  them,  and  towards  making  of 
the  Town  of  manfoul  your  own,  than  can  an  ar- 
my of  a  legion  that  mould  be  fent  out  from  us  to 
withltand  him. 

"Let  therefore  this  Mrft  project,  that  our  friends 
Dreadful  m  manfoul  have  fet  on  foot,  be  ftrongly 
advice  and  diligently  carried  on  with  all  cuh- 
againfl  ning  and  craft  imaginable  ;  and  lee  them 
Nianfou I. fend  continually,  under  one  guife  or  an- 
other, more  and  other  of  their  men  to  play  with 
the  people  of  manfoul  ;  and  then  perhaps  we 
U  2 


'232  The    HOLY   WAR. 

/hall  not  need  to  be  at  the  charge  of  making  a  war 
upon  them  ;  or  if  that  mud  of  neceffity  be  done, 
yet  the  more  iinful  they  are, the  more  unable,tobe 
fare,  they  will  be  to  refill  us,  and  then  the  more 
eafily  We  fhall  overcome  them.  And  befides.fuppofe 
(and  that  is  the  worlt  that  can  be  fuppofed)  that 
Emmanuel  mould  come  to  them  again,  why  may 
not  the  fame  means  (or  the  like)  drive  him  from 
them  once  more  ?  Yea,  why  may  he  not, by  their 
lapfe  into  that  fin  again,  be  driven  from  them  for 
ever,for  the  fake  of  which  he  was  at  the  firit  driven 
from  them  for  a  feafon  ?  And  if  this  mould  hap- 
pen, then  away  go  with  him  his  rams,  his  flings, 
his  captains,  his  foldiers,  and  he  leaveth  manfoul 
naked  and  bare  :  yea,  will  not  this  Town,  when 
Dreadful  file  fees  herfelf  utterly  forfaken  of  her 
advice  Prince,  of  her  own  accord  open  her 
againfi  gates  again  unto  you,  and  make  of  you 
Manfoul.  as  in  the  days  of  old  ?  But  this  mull  be 
done  by  time,  a  few  days  will  not  effect  fo  great 
a  work  as  this." 

So  foon  as  Apollyon  had  made  an  end  of  fpeak- 
ing,  Diabolus  began  to  blow  out  his  own  malice, 
I  and  to  plead  his  own  caufe  ;  and  he  faid,  "My 
lords  and  powers  of  the  cave,  my  true  and  trufty 
friends,  I  have  with  much  impatience,  as  becomes 
me,  given  ear  to  your  long  and  tedious  orations  : 
but  my  furious  gorge,  and  empty  paunch,  fo  luf- 
teth  after  a  repoiTeilion  of  my,  famous  Town  of 
manfoul, that,  whatever  comes  on't,  I  can  wait  no 
longer  to  fee  the  events  of  lingering  projects.  I 
mull,  and  that  without  further  delay,  feek,  by  all 
means  I  can,  to  fill  my  unfatiable  gulf  with  the 
T  ,  .  foul  and  body  of  the  Town  of  man  foul  : 
■  °°  1° )  '  therefore  lend  me  your  heads,  your 
Mjou  •  ]ieartS)  and  y0Ur  help,  now  I  am  going 
to  recover  my  Town  of  manfoul. 


The   HOLY   WAR.  *33 

When  the  lords  and  princes  of  che  Pit  iaw  the 
flaming  defire  that  was  in  Diabolus  to  devour  the 
miferable  Town  of  manfoul,  they  left  off  to  raiie 
any  more  objections,  but  conferred  to  lend  him 
what  ftrcngth  theyeould;  though,  had  Apollyon's 
advice  been  taken,  they  had  far  more  fearfully  dii- 
treffed  the  Town  of  manfoul.  But,  1  lay,  they  were 
willing  to  lend  him  what  ftrength  they  could,  not 
knowing  what  need  they  might  have  of  him  when 
they  mould  engage  for  themfelves,  as  he.  Where- 
fore they  fall  to  advifing  about  the  next  thing  pro- 
pounded, to  wit,  What  foldiers  they  were,  and  alfo 
how  many,  with  whom  Diabolus  mould  go  againft 
the  Town  of  manfoul  to  take  it  r  And,  after  feme 
debate,  it  was  concluded,  according  as  in  the  let- 
ter the  Diabolonians  had  fuggefted,  that  none  was 
more  fit  for  that  expedition  than  an  army  of  ter- 
u4n  army  cfr\h\t  Doubters.  They  therefore  con- 
Doubters  eluded  to  fendagainft  manfoul  an  army 
go  agahijl  of  fturdy  Doubters.  The  number 
ike  Town  0/thonght  fit  to  be  employed  in  that  fer- 
ManfouL  vice  was  between  twenty  and  thirtv 
thoufand.  Sothen  the  refult  of  that  great  councrr 
of  thole  high  and  mighty  lords  was,  that  Diabo- 
lus ili  on  Id  even  now  out  of  hand  beat  up  his  drum 
for  men  in  the  land  of  Doubting  (which  land  Jrerh- 
lipon  the  confines  of  the  place  called  Hell-gate- 
hill)  that  might  be  employed  by  him  againif  the 
miferable  Town  of  manfoul.  It  was  alfo  conclud- 
ed, that  tliefe  lords  themfelves  mould  help  them 
in  the  war,  and  that  they  would  to  that  end  head" 
The  and  manage  Ins  men.     So  they  drew 

frinces  of  up  a  letter,  and  fent  it  back  to  the 
the  Pit  go  Diabolonians  that  lurked  in  man- 
Ttttth  ibem.  foul,-  and  that  waited  for  the  back 
cemingfrof  Mr.  Profane,  to  fignify  to  them  into 
What  method  and  forwardness  they  at  prefent  had 

U    2 


234  The    HOLY    WAR. 

put  their  deflgn.     The  concents  whereof  now  fol- 
loweth. 

From  the  dark  and  horrible  dungeon  of  hell,  Dia- 
holus,  with  all the  foci 'ety  of  the  princes  of  dark' 
nefs,  fends  to  our  trufly  ones  in  and  about  the  walls 
of  the  Tozvn  of  Manful,  now  impatiently  waiting 
for  our  mojl  devilijh  anfwer  to  their  venemous 
and  mod  poifonous  deflgn  againjl  the  Town  of 
Manful. 

'*  /~\UR  native  ones,  in  whom  from  day  to  day 
V>/  we  boali,  and  in  whofe  adtions  all  the  year 
long  we  do  greatly  delight  ourfelves;  we  received 
your  welcome,  becaufe  highly  efteemed,  letter, 
at  the  hand  of  our  trufly  and  greatly  beloved  the 
old  gentleman  Mr.  Profane.  And  do  give  you  to 
underfland,  that  when  we  had  broken  it  up,  and 
had  read  the  contents  thereof  (to  your  amazing 
memory  be  it  fpoken),  ouryawning hollow  bellied, 
place,  where  we  are,  made  {o  hideous  and  yelling 
a  noife  for  joy,  that  the  mountains  that  ftand  round 
about  Hellgate-hill  had  like  to  have  been  ihaken 

0o  pieces  at  the  found  thereof. 

"We  could  alfo  do  no   lefs  than   admire  your 

,  fartHfuinefs  to  us,  with  the  greatnefs  of  that  fub- 
tilty  that  now  hath  fhewed  itfelf  to  be  in  your 
heads  to  ferve  us  again!!  the  Town  of  manfoul. 
For  you  have  invented  for  us  fo  excellent  a  method 
for  our  proceeding  againit  that  rebellious  people, 
2  more  effectual  one  cannot  be  thought  of  by    all 

j  the  wirs  of  Hell.  The  propofals  therefore,  which 
now  at  laft  you  have  fent  us,  fince  we  faw  them, 
we  have  done  little  elfe  but  highly  approved  and 
admired  them. 

"Nay,  we  (hall,  to  encourage  you  in    the   pro- 

'  fundiry  ofyour  craft,  let  you  know,  that,  at  a  full 

.  affembly  and  conclave  of  our  princes  and  princi- 


The    HOLY    WAR,  235 

palities  of  this  place,  your  projedl  was  difcourled 
and  toffed  from  one  fide  of  our  cave  to  the  other 
by  their  mightinefles  ;  but  a  better,  and,as  was  by 
themfelves  judged,  a  more  fit  and  proper  way  by 
all  their  wits  could  not  be  invented,  to  furprife, 
take,  and  make  our  own,  the  rebellious  Town  of 
man  foul. 

"Wherefore, in  fine,all  that  was  faid  that  varied 
from  what  yon  had  in  your  letter  propounded  fell 
of  itfelf  to  the  ground,  and  yours  only  was  fluck 
to  by  Diabolus  the  prince  ;  yea,  his  gaping  gorge 
and  yawning  paunch  was  on  fire  to  put  your  in- 
vention in  execution. 

"We,  therefore,  give  you  to  underftanql,  that 
our  flout,  furious,  and  unmerciful  Diabolus  is  rai- 
ling, for  your  relief,and  the  ruin  of  the  rebellious 
Town  of  manfoul,  more  than  twenty  thoufand 
Doubters,  to  come  againfl  that  people  ;  they  are 
all  flout  and  flurdy  men, and  men  that  of  old  have 
been  accuflomed  to  war,  and  that  can  therefore 
well  endure  the  drum.  I  fay,  he  is  doing  of  this 
work  of  his  with  all  the  poffible  fpeed  he  can  ; 
for  his  heart  and  fpirit  is  engaged  in  it.  We  de- 
fire,  therefore,  that  as  you  have  hitherto  fluck  to 
us,  and  given  us  both  advice  and  encouragement 
thus  far,  that  you  flill  will  profecute  our  defign  ; 
nor  fhall  we  lofe,  but  be  gainers  thereby  ;  yea, 
we  intend  to  make  you  the  lords  of  man- 
foul. 

"One  thing  may  not  by  any  means  be  omitted, 
that  is,  thofe  with  us  do  defire  that  every  one  of 
you  that  are  in  manfoul  would  flill  ufe  all  your 
power,  cunning,  and  fkill,  with  deluflve  perfua- 
fions,yet  to  draw  the  Town  of  manfoul  into  more 
fin  and  wickednefs,  even  that  fin  may  be  finifhed 
and  bring  forth  death. 

'Tor  thus  it  is  concluded  with  us,  that   the 


236  The    HOLY    WAR. 

more  vi!e,f;riful,and  debauched  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  is, the  more  backward  will  betheir  Emmanuel 
to  come  to  their  hclp,either  by  prefcnce  or  other 
relief  \  yea  the  more  finful  the  more  weak,  and  fo 
the  more  unable  will  they  be  to  make  refittance, 
when  we  mail  make  our  aifault  upon  them  to 
fwallow  them  up.  Yea,  that  may  caufe  that  their 
mighty  Shaddai  himfelf  may  call  them  out  of  his 
cj*  ,  ,  ,  protection  ;  yea,  and  fend  for  his  cap- 
**  r  i  *  tains  anc*  ^diers  home,  with  his  flings 
J  '  and  rams,  and  leave  them  naked  and 
bare  :  and  then  the  Town  of  marifoul  will  of  itfelf 
open  to  us,  and  fall  as  the  fig  into  the  mouth  of 
the  eater  ;  yea,  to  be  fure,  that  we  then,  with  a 
great  deal  of  cafe,  ihall  come  upon  her  and  over- 
come her. 

"As  to  the  time  of  our  coming   upon    manfoul, 
we  as  yet  have  not  fully  refolved  upon  that,   the/ 
at  pre  font  fome  of  us  think  as  you,  that  a  market- 
day,or  a  market-day  at  night,  will  certainly  be  the 
~  £    beft.  However,do  you  be  ready  ;  and 

when  you  lhall  hear  our  roaring  drum 
without,  do  you  be  as  bufy  to  make  the  mod  hor- 
rible confufion  within  ;  fo  mail  manfoul  certainly 
be  diit  re  fled  before  and  behind,  and  fhall  not  know 
which  vyay  to  betake  herfelf  for  help.     My  Lord 
Lucifer,  my  Lord  Beelzebub, my  Lord  Apollyon, 
my  Lord  Legion, with  the  reft,  lalute  you, as  does 
alio  my  Lord  Diabolus  ;  and  we  wifli  both    you, 
with  ill  chat  ycu  do  or  fhall  polTefs,  the  very  felf- 
fame  fruit  and  fuccefs  for  their  doings  as  we  our- 
felves  at  prefent  enjoy  for  ours. 
"From  our  dreadful  confines  in   the  molt    fearful 
Pic  vve  lalute  you, and  fo  do  thofe  many  legions 
here  with  us,  wifbing  you  may  he  as   hellifhly 
profperous  as  we  dciire  to  be    oiarjetvei.     By 
the  letttr-carrier  Mr.  Profane." 


The    HOLY    WAR.  237 

Then  Mr.  Profane  addreffed  himfelf  for  his  re- 
turn to  manfoul  with  his  errand, from  the  horrible 
Pit  to  theDiaboIonians  that  dwelt  in  that  Town. 
So  he  came  up  the  itairs  from  the  deep  to  the 
More  talk  mouth  of  the  cave  where  Cerberus 
between  was.  Now,  when  Cerberus  faw  him, 
Profane  he  afked  how  matters  did  go  below, 
andCer-  about  and  againft  the  Town  of  man- 
berus.  foul. 

Prof, "Things  go  as  well  as  we  can  expect.  The 
letter  that  I  carried  thither  was  highly  approved 
and  well  liked  by  all  my  lords  ;  and  I  am  return- 
ing to  tell  our  Diabolonians  fo.  I  have  an  anfwer 
to  it  here  in  my  bofom  that,  I  am  fure,  will  make 
our  matters  that  fent  me  glad  ;  for  the  contents 
thereof  is  to  encourage  them  to  purfne  their  de- 
iign  to  the  utmoit,  and  to  be  ready  alfo  to  fall  on 
within,  when  they  mail  fee  my  lord  Diabolus  be- 
leaguering of  the  Town  of  manfoul," 

Cerb.  "But  does  he  intend  to  go  againft  them 
himfelf?" 

Prof  "Does  he  !  ay,  and  he  will  take  along 
From  with  him  more  than  twenty  thoufand, 

whence  the  all  iturdy  Doubters,  and  men  of  war, 
Doubters  pickt  men  from  the  land  of  Doubting, 
came,  to  ferve  him  in  the  expedition." 

Cerb,  Then  was  Cerberus  glad,  and  faid,  "And 
arc  there  fuch  brave  preparations  a-making  to  go 
againft  the  miferable  town  of  manfoul  ?  and  would 
I  might  be  put  at  the  head  of  a  thoufand  of  them, 
that  I  might  alfo  fliew  my  valour  againft  the  fa- 
mous Town  of  manfoul  !" 

Prof  "Your  wifh  may  come  to  pafs  ;  you  look 
like  one  that  has  mettle  enough, and  my  lord  will  . 
have  with  him  thofe  that  are   valiant    and  ftout. 
But  my  bufmefs  requires  hafte." 

Cerb.  "Ay,  fo  it  does.  Speed  thee  to  the  Town 


238  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

of  manfoul,  with  all  the  deeped  mil  chiefs  that  this 
place  can  afford  thee.  And  when  thou  fhalt  come 
to  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Mifchief,the  place  where  the 
Diabolonians  meet  to  plot,  tell  them,  that  Cer- 
berus doth  vviih  them  his  fervice,  and  that,  if  he 
may,  he  will  with  the  army  come  up  againit  the 
famous  Town  of  manfoul." 

Prof.  "That  I  will.  And  I  know  that  my  lords 
that  are  there  will  be  glad  to  hear  it,  and  to  fee 
you  alfo." 

So, after  a  few  more  fuch  kind  of  compliments, 
Mr.Profane  took  his  leave  of  his  friend  Cerberus; 
and  Cerberus  again,  with  a  thoufand  of  their  Pit- 
wimes,bid  him  haite  with  all  fpeed  to  his  mailers. 
The  which  when  he  had  heard  he  made  obeifance, 
and  began  to  gather  up  his  heels  to  run. 

Thus  therefore  he  returned, and  wentandcame 
to  manfoul  ;  and,  going  as  afore  to  the  houfe  of 
Mr.  Mifchief,there  he  found  the  Diabolonians  af- 
fembled,  and  waiting  for  his  return.  Now,  when 
he  was  come,and  had  prefented  himfelf,  he  alfo  de- 
liveredtothemhisletter,  and  adjoined  this  com  pi  i- 
Profane  re-  mcnt  to  them  therewith  :  "My  lords, 
turned  from  the  confines  of  the  Pit,  the  high 

again  to  and  mighty  principalities  and  powers 
Manfoul.  of  the  Den  falute  you  here,  the  true 
Diabolonians  of  the  town  of  manfoul  ;  wiihing 
you  always  the  moft  proper  of  their  bencdiclions, 
for  the  great  fervice,  high  attempts,  and  brave 
achievements, that  you  have  put  yourfelves  upon 
for  the  reitoring  to  our  prince  Diabolus  the  fa- 
mous Town  of  manfoul." 

This  was,therefore,  the  prefent  flare  of  the  mi- 
serable Town  of  manfoul  :  fhe  had  offended  her 
Prince,  and  he  was  gone  ;  fhe  had  encouraged  the 
powers  of  Hell  by  her  fooiilhnefs  to  come  againrt 
her,  to  fcek  her  utter  deltruclion. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  239 

True,  theTown  of  manfoul  was  fomewhat  made 
fciifible  of  her  fin;  but  the  Diabolonians  were  got- 
ten into  her  bowels:  fhe  cried,  but  Emmanuel  was 
gone,  and  her  cries  did  not  fetch  him  as  yet  again. 
Bolides,  ihe  knew  not  whether  ever,  or  never,  he 
would  return  and  come  to  his  manfoul  again  ;  nor 
did  they  know  the  power  and  induitry  of  the  enemy, 
nor  how  forward  they  were  to  put  in  execution  that 
plot  of  Hell  that  they  had  deviled  againfl  her. 

They  did  indeedftill  fend  petition  after  petition 
to  the  Prince,  but  he  anfwered  all  with  filence. 
They  did  neglecl  reformation,  and  that  was  as 
Diabolus  would  have  it  ;  for  he  knew,  if  they  re- 
garded iniquity  in  their  heart,  their  King  would 
not  hear  their  prayers:  they  thereforedid  if  ill  grow 
weaker  and  weaker,  and  were  as  a  rolling  thing 
before  the  whirlwind.  They  cried  to  their  King 
for  help,  and  laid  Dia~bolonians  in  their  befoms  ; 
what  therefore  mould  their  Kingdo  to  thtm  i  Yea, 
there  feemed  now  to  be  a  mixture  in  manfoul,  the 
Diabolonians  and  the  manfoulians  would  walk  the 
itreets  together  ;  yea,  they  began  to  feek  their 
peace  ;  for  thy  thought  that,  fince  the  ficknefs 
had  been  fo  mortal  in  manfoul,  it  was  in  vain  to 
go  to  handigrips  with  them.  Befides,  the  weak.- 
nefs  of  manfoul  was  the  ftrength  of  their  enemies, 
and  the  fins  of  manfoul  the  advantage  of  the  Dia- 
bolonians. The  foes  of  manfoul  did  alfonow  be- 
gin to  promife  thtmfel  ves  theTown  for  a  pofTeffion ; 
there  was  no  great  difference  now  betwixt  man- 
foulians" and  Diabolonians,  both  feemed  to  be 
mailers  of  manfoul.  Yea,  the  Diabolonians  in- 
creafed  and  grew,  but  the  Town  of  marrfoul  di- 
Cood  thoughts ,  minified. greatly.  There  were  more 
good  concep-  than  eleven  thoufand  of  men,  wo- 
t/ons,  and gecdmen,  and  children,  that  died;  by  tb.a 
de fires,  ficknefs  in.m*infoul. 


24o  The    HOLY   WAR. 

But  now,  as  Shaddai  would  have  it,  there  was 

one  whofe  namewas  Mr.  Prywell,  a  great  loverof 

tr*,    »         r     the  people  of  manfoul.     And  he,  as 

n*    r>         11     his  manner  was,  did  go  litlening  up 

Mr. Prywell :         .    ,  r     i  r      6    5 

J  and  down  in  manfoul,  to  lee    and 

hear,  if  at  any  time  he  might,  whether  there  was 
any  defign  againfl  it  or  no  ;  for  he  was  always  a 
jealous  man,  and  feared  fome  mifchief  fometime 
would  befal  it,  either  from  the  Diabolonians  with- 
in, or  from  fome  power  without.  Now,  upon  a 
time,  it  fo  happened, asMr. Prywell  went  liftening 
He  d/fcovers  here  and  there,  that  he  lighted  upon 
theDiaboIo-  a  place  called  Vile-hill  in  manfoul, 
jiianpht.  where  the  Diabolonians  ufed  to  meet  : 
fo  hearing  a  muttering  (you  mud  know  that 
it  was  in  the  night)  he  foftly  drew  near  to  hear  ; 
nor  had  he  flood  long  under  the  houfe-end  (for 
there  flood  a  houfe  there)  but  he  heard  one 
confidently  affirm,  that  it  was  not  nor  would 
not  be  long  before  Diabolus  fhould  polTefs  him- 
ftlf  again  of  manfoul;  and  that  then  the  Dia- 
bolonians did  intend  to  put  all  manfoulians  to 
the  fword,  and  would  kill  and  deflroy  the  King's 
Captains,  and  drive  all  his  foldiers  out  of  the 
Town. 

He  faid,  moreover,  that  he  knew  there  were  a- 
bove  twenty  thoufand  fighting  men  prepared  by 
Diabolus  for  the  accomplifhing  of  this  deilgn,  and 
that  it  would  not  be  many  months  before  they  all 
fhould  fee  it.  When  Mr.  Prywell  had  heard  this 
flory,  he  did  quickly  believe  it  was  true  :  where- 
UnderflarJ-  fore  he  went  forthwith  to  my  Lord 
i?igyCon-  Mayor's  houfe,  and  acquainted  him 
cience.  therewith  ;  who  fending  for  the  fub- 
bordinate  Preacher,  brake  the  bufinefs  to  him  ;  and 
he  asfoon  gave  the  alarm  to  the  Town ;  for  he  was 
now  the  chief  Preacher  in  manfoul,  becauje  as  yet 


The    HOLY    WAR.  141 

my  Lord  Secretary  was  ill  at  eafe.  And  this  was 
the  way  that  the  fubordinate  Preacher  did  take  to 
alarm  the  Town  therewith.  The  fame  hour  he 
The  fub-  caufed  the  ledure  bell  to  be  rung,  fa 
ordinate  the  people  came  together  ;  he  gave 
Preacher  them  then  a  fliort  exhortation  to 
awakened,  watchfulnefs,  and  made  Mr.  Prywell's 
news  the  argument  thereof :  "For,"  faid  he,  "an 
horrible  plot  is  contrived  againfl  manfoul,  even  to 
mafTacre  us  all  in  a  da)'  ;  nor  is  the  ilory  to  be 
flighted,  for  Mr.  Prywcll  is  the  author  thereof. 
Mr.  Prywell  was  always  a  lover  of  manfoul,  a  fo- 
ber  and  judicious  man, a  man  that  is  no  tattler  nor 
raifer  of  falfe  reports,  but  one  that  loves  to  look 
into  the  very  bottom  ofmatters,  and  talks  nothing 
of  news  but  by  very  folid  arguments. 

"I  will  call  him,  and  you  mall  hear  him  your 
Prywell  own  felves  ;"  fo  he  called  him,  and  lie 
tells  bis  came  and  told  his  tale  fo  punctually 
news  to  and  affirmed  its  truth  with  fuch  ample 
Manfoul:  grounds,  that  manfoul  fell  prefently 
under  a  conviction  of  the  truth  of  what  he  faid. 
The  Preacher  did  alfo  back  him,  faying,  "Sirs, 
it  is  not  irrational  for  us  to  believe  it ;  for  we  have 
provoked  Shaddai  to  anger,  and  have  finned  Em- 
manuel out  of  the  Town  :  we  have  had  too  much 
correfpondence  with  Diabolonians,  and  have  for- 
faken  our  former  mercies  ;  no  marvel,  then,  if  the 
enemy  both  within  and  without  mould  defign  and 
plot  our  ruin  ;  and  what  time  like  this  to  "do  it  I 
The  licknefsisnowin  theTown,and  we  have  been 
\  (Good  de-  made  weak  thereby.  Many  a  good 
fires.)  meaning  man  is  dead,  and  the  Diabolo-. 
mans  of  late  grew  ftronger  and  flronger.  Bo 
fides,"  quoth  the  fubordinate  Preacher,  "I  have 
received  from  this  good  truth-teller  this  one  ir.k- 
ling;  further,  thar  he  underiiood  by  thole  that  he 

X 


-42  The   HOLY    WAR. 

overheard,  that  feveral  letters  have  lately  pafTed 

between  the  furies  and  the  Diabolonians,  in  order 

to  our  dell  ruction." 

When  manfoul  heard  all    this,  and    not   being 

'  ,        able  to  gainfay  it,  they  lift  up   their 

J  hey  take      vq1cq  and  ^^^     M^  pry  wclJ  did  d_ 

the  alarm  :   ^  {n  the  pref:nce  of  the    townfmen> 

confirm  all  that  their  fubordinate  Preacher  had 
faid.  Wherefore  they  now  fet  afrefh  to  bewail 
their  folly,  and  to  a  doubling  of  petitions  to  Shad- 
They  tell  dai  and  his  Son.  They,  alfo  break 
the  thing  to  the  bufinefs  to  the  Captains,  high  coni- 
the  Cap-  manders,andmenof  war,intheTown  of 
tains  :  manfoul,  entreating  of  them  to  ufe  the 

means,  to  be  ftrong,  and  to  take  good  courage, 
and  that  they  would  look  after  their  harnefs,  and 
make  themfelves  ready  to  give  Diabolus  battle  by 
night  or  by  day,  fhould  he  come,  as  they  are  in- 
formed he  will,  to  beleaguer  the  Town  of  man- 
foul. 

When  the  Captains  heard  this, they  being  always 
true  lovers  of  the  Town  of  manfoul,  what  do  they 
but,  like  fo  many  Samfons,  make  themfelves,  and 
They  come  come  together  to  confult  and  contrive 
together  to  how  to  defeat  thofe  bold  and  hellifh 
confult  :  contrivances  that  were-upon  the  wheel, 
by  the  means  of  Diabolus  and  his  friends,  againfl 
the  now  fickly,  weakly  and  much  impoverifhed 
Town  of  manfoul  ;  and  they  agreed  upon  thefe 
following  particulars  : 

i.  That  the  gates  of  manfoul  mould  be  kept 
Their  a-  fhut,and  made  fail  with  bars  and  locks  ; 
greement.  and  that  all  perfons  that  went  our,  or 
i  Cor.  x.6,  came  in,  fhould  be  very  flriclly  exa- 
C-r.  mined  by  the  Captains  of  the   guards  ; 

to  the  end,  Faid  they,  that  thole  that  are  managers 
©f  theplotamongft  us  may,  either  comingor  going, 


The    HOL  Y   WAR.  243 

Lam.  iii.     be  taken  ;    and  that  we  may  alfo  find 
40.  .  out  who  are  the  great   contrivers  (a- 

mongft  us)  of  our  ruin. 

2.  The  next  thing  was,  That  a  ft  net  fearch 
mould  be  made  For  all  kind  of  Efiabdlonuns 
throughout  the  whole  Town  of  manfoul ;  and  that 
every  man's  houfe.  from  top  to  bottom,  mould  be 
looked  into,  and  that  too  houfe  by  houfe,  thar,  if 
Hcb.  xii.15,  pofTible,  a  further  difcovery  might  be 
16,  made  of  all  fuch  among  them  as  had  a 
hand  in  thefe  defigns. 

3.  It  was  further  concluded  upon,  Thac  where- 
fover,or  with  whomfoever,any  of  the  Diabolonians 
were  found,  that  even  thofe  of  the  Townof  man- 
Jer.  ii.  34.  foul,  who  had  given  them  houfe  and 
8c  v.  26.  harbour,  mould,  to  their  mame,  and 
Ezek.  xvi.  the  warning  of  others,  do  pennance 
52.  in  the  open  place. 

4.  It  was,moreover,refolved  by  the  famous  Town 
©f  manfoul, That  a  public  fall  and  a  day  of  humilia- 
tion fhould  be  kept  throughout  the  whole  Corpo- 
ration, to  thejuftifying  of  their  Prince,the  abafing 
Joel  i.  14.  of  themfelves  before  him  for  their 
<Sc  ii.  15,  i6»  tranfgreiTions  again  It  him, and  againft 
Shaddai  his  Father.  It  was  further  refolved,That, 
all  fuch  in  manfoul  as  did  not  on  that  day  endea- 
vour to  keep  that  fail:,  and  to  humble  themfelves 
for  their  faults,  but  that  mould  mind  their  world- 
ly employments,  or  be  found  wandering  up  and 
down  the  ftreets,  mould  betaken  for  Diabolo- 
nians for  fuch  wicked  doings. 

5.  It  was  further  concluded  then, That  with  what 
fpeed,  and  with  what  warmth  of  mind  they  could,. 
Jet .  xxxvii.  they  would  renew  their  humiliation 
4.  for  fin,  and  their  petitions  to  Shaddai 
for  help  \  they  alfo  refolved   to  fend    tidings    to 

X  2 


244  The  HOLY    WAR. 

the  Court  of  all  that  Mr.  Pry  well  had  told  them. 

6.  It  was  alio  determined,  That  thanks  lhould 
be  given  by  the  Town  of  manfoul  to  Mr.  Pry  well, 
for  his  diligent  feeking  of  the  welfare  of  their 
Town  ;  and  further,  that  forafmuch  as  he  was  fo 
'The  office  naturaltyinclined  to  feek  their  good,  and 
efMr.Pry-dtio  to  undermine  their  foes,  they  gave 
well.  him  a  commiffion  of  Scout-mailer   Ge- 

neral, for  the  good  of  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

When  the  Corporation  with  their  captains  had 
thus  conclndedjtheyxiidastheyhadfaid;  they  (hut 
up  their  gates  ;  they  made  for  Diabolonians  Uriel 
iearch ;  they  madethofe  with  whom  any  was  found 
to  do  pennancein  the  open  place  ;  they  kept  their 
faft,  and  renewed  their  petitions  to  their  Prince  : 
He  dif~  and  Mr.  Pryweil  managed  his  charge, 
charges  it  and  the  truft  that  manfoul  had  put  in 
with Jide/i-h\s  hands,  with  great  confeience  and 
ty  :  good    fidelity    ;  for   he   gave    himfelf 

wholly  up  to  his  employ,  and  that  not  only  with- 
in the  Town,  but  he  went  out  to  pry,  to  fee,  and 
to  hear. 

And,  not  many  days  after,  he  provided  for  his 
journey,  and  went  towards  Hellgate-hill,  into  the 
country  where  the  Doubterswere,  where  heheard 
of  all  that  had  been  talked  of  in  manfoul,  and  he 
perceived  alio  that  Diabolus  was  almoft  ready  for 
his  march,  err.  fo  he  came  back  with  fpeed,  and, 
calling  theCaptains  and  elders  of  manfoul  together, 
lie  told  them  where  he  had  been,  what  he  had 
heard,  and  what  he  had  ieen. 

Particularly  he  told  them,  that  Diabolus  was 
He  returns  almoif.  ready  for  his  march,  and  that 
with  great  he  had  made  old  Mr.  Incredulity,  than 
news.  once    brake'  prifon    in    manfoul,    the 

general  of  his  aimy  ;  that  his  army  confided  all  of 
Doubters,and  their  number  was  above  twenty  thou- 


The    HOLY    W  A  R.  24J 

fand.  He  told,moreover,  that  Diabolus  did  intend 
to  bring  with  him  thechief  princesof  the  infernal 
pit,  and  that  he  would  make  them  chief  Captains 
over  his  Doubters.  He  told  them,  moreover,that 
it  was  certainly  true, that  feveral  of  the  black  Den 
would  with  Diabolus  ride  reformadoes,  to  reduce 
the  Town  of  manfoul  to  the  obedience  of  Diabo- 
lus their  prince. 

He  faid,  moreover,  that  he  underflood  by  the 
Doubters,  among  whom  he  had  been, that  the  rea- 
fon  why  old  Incredulity  was  made  general  of  the 
whole  army  was,  becaufe  none  truer  than  he  to 
the  tyrant,  and  becaufe  he  had  an  implacable  fpite 
againft  the  welfare  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  Be- 
fides,  he  faid, he  remembers  the  affronts  that  man- 
foul has  given,  and  he  is  refolved  to  be  revenged 
||  Befett'ing  of  them.  But  the  ||black  Princes  mall 
fins,  Heb.  be  made  high  commanders, only  lucre- 
xii.  1.  dulity  fhali  be  over  them  all,    becaufe 

(which  I  had  almoft  forgot)he  can  more  ealily  and- 
more  dexteroufly  beleaguer  the  Town  of  manfoul 
than  can  any  of  the  princes  befides. 

Now,  when  the  Captains  of  manfoul,  with  the 
elders  of  the  Town, had  heard  the  tidings  that  Mr. 
Pry  well  did  bring,they  thought  it  expedient, with- 
out further  delay,  to  put  into  execution  the  laws 
that  againft  the  Diabolonians  their  Prince  had 
made  for  them,  and  given  them  in  commandment 
to  manage  againft  them.  Wherefore  forthwith 
a  diligent  and  impartial  fearch  was  made  in  all 
honfes  in  manfoul,  for  all  and  all  manner  of  Dia- 
bolonians. Now,  in  the  houfe  of  Mr.  Mind, 
in  the  houfe  of  the  great  Lord  Wiljbewill,  were 
two  Diabolonians  found.  In  Mr. Mind's  houfe  was 
Some  Dza-  one  Lord  Covetoufnefs  found,  but  he 
b:/:nians  had  changed  his  name  to  Prudent- 
taken  in     thrifty    ;    in     my  Lord   Wiilbe will's 

X3 


246  The    HOLY   WAR. 

Af a  nfouf ,houfs   one   Lafeivioufnefs    was     found, 

and  corn-but  he  had  changed  his   name   to  Harm- 

mittedto  kfs-mirth.      Thefe    two     the   Captains 

friforu     and  elders    of    the    Town  of  manfoul 

took,  and  committed  them  to  cuftody,   under  the 

hand  of  Mr.  True-man  the  jailer  ;  and  this   man 

handled  them  fo  feverely,and  loaded  them  fo  well 

with  irons, that  in  time  they  both  fell  into  a  very 

deep  confumption,  and  died  in  the   prifon-houfe  : 

The  Lord     their  mailers   alfo,   according  to   the 

Willbewi 11 'agreement  of  the  captains  and   elders, 

and  Mr.     were  brought  to  do  pennance   in   the 

Mind  take  open  place,  to  their  ihame,   and  for   a 

pennance*    warning  to  the  reil   of  the  Town  of 

manfoul. 

Now  this  was  the  manner  of  pennance  in  thofe 

n  days  ;    the    perfons    offending,  being: 

Pennance      J,    7r    r.,    rr   ,         .,    ,.   .    P\  . 
•  ,  made  ieniible  of  the  evil  ot  their  doings, 

were  injoined  to  open  confeflion  of  their 

faults,  and  a  ffrici  amendment  of  their  lives. 

After  this  the  captains  and  elders   of  manfoul 

fought  yet  to  find  out  more   Diabolonians  where- 

ever  they  lurked,  whether  in  dens,    caves,   holes, 

vaults,  or  where  elfe  he  could,    in   or   about   the 

4  wall  or  Town  of  manfoul  :  but  though  they  could 

plainly  fee  their  footing,  and  fo  follow   them  by 

their  irael  and  fmell  to  their  holes,  even    to    the 

mouths  of  their  caves  and  dens,yet  take  them,hold 

them,  and  do  juftice  upon  them,  they  could   not, 

their  way?  were  fo  crooked,  their  holds  fo  Itrong, 

and  they  fo  quick  to  take  fanctuary  there. 

But  manfoul  did  now  with  fo  if  iff  an   hand  rule 

over  the  Diabolonians  that  were  left, that  they  were 

glad  to  fhrink  into  corners.  Time  was  when  they 

duril  walk  openly  and  in  the  day,  but   now   they 

were  forced  to  embrace  privacy  and  the    night    ; 

time  was  when   a  manfoulian  was   their   comrxi- 


The   HOLY    WAR.  *47 

nion,  but  now  they  counted  them  deadly  enemies. 
This  good  change  did  Mr.  PrywelPs  intelligence 
make  in  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul. 

By  this  time  Diabolus  had  finiihed  his  army, 
which  he  intended  to  bring  with  him  for  the  ruin 
of  manfoul,  and  had  fet  over  them  Captains  and 
other  field-officers, fuch  as  liked  his  furious  ftomach 
n.  ,  .  ,  belt  ;  himfelf  was  Lord  Paramount, 
Incredulity  was  general  or  his  army, 
'"  their  higheft  Captains  fhall  be  named 
afterwards;  but  now  for  their  officers,  colours,  and 
fcutcheons. 

1.  Their  firft  Captain  was  Captain  Rage, he  was 
P         ..  Captain  over  the   Eleftion-doubters  ; 

'  *  3'  his  were  the  red  Co/ours;  his  itandard- 
4»  J3>  J5>  »/«  bearer  was  Mr.  Deitrudtive  ;  and  he 
had  for  his  fcutcheon  the  great  Red  Dragon. 

2.  The  fecond  captain  was  Captain  Fury,he  was 
N  mh        '   6   CaPtainovertne  Vocation-doubters  ; 

'  his  ftandard-bearer  was  Mr.  Dark- 
nefs;  his  Colours  were  thofethat  were  Pale ;  and  he 
had    for  his  fcutcheon  the  fiery  flying  Serfent. 

3.  The  third  captain  was  Captain   Damnation, 

i\/fn^i  •••  be  was  Captain  over  the  Grace-dsubt- 

Mark  111.22,  .  .       r       ,         ?^  ,         »*    V1 

r>      •         ers  ;  his  were  the  red  Colours, ,Mr.No- 

*"       -    '  *  life  bare  them  ;  and  he  had   for   his 

fcutcheon  the  Black  Den. 

4.  The  fourth  captain  was   Captain    Infatiabla* 

doubters  ;  his  were  the  red  Colours, 
Mr.  Devourer  bare  them  ;  and  he  had  for  a  fcut- 
cheon the  Yaxvnina  Jazvs. 

5.  The  fifth  captain  was  Cptain  Brimftone, 
Pfal.x\.6.  he  was  Captain  over  the  Perfeve- 
J<ei.x\v.  10,  rance-doubters ;  his  alfo  were  the  red 
1  i>  Colours^Mx.  Bowing  bare  them  ;  and 

:cutcheon-  was  the  bin  \  Jng  Flame, 


248  The  HOLY    WAR. 

6.  The  ilxth  captain  was  Captain  Torment,  he 
A/f     ,  .  was  Captain   over    the   Refurreilion- 

fr*«*'  ^'doubters  ;  his   colours   were  thofe  that 
46'  ^'  were  Pale,   Mr.  Gnaw  was  his  itand- 

ard-bearer  :  and   he  had  for   his   fcutcheon   the 
Black  fVorm. 

7.  The  ieventh  captain  was  Captain  No-eafe,he 
p  .  was  Captain  over  the  Salvation-doubt- 
te°:  1q'  1 1'  ersi  his  were  the  redColours,Mi'.R.tft- 

lefs  bare  them,  and  his  fcutcheon  was 
the  gha  jlly  PiCiure  of  Death. 

8.  The  eighth  captain  was  the  Captain  Sepuk 
JerX\.  xi.  chre,  he  was  Captain  over  the  Glory- 
Mat.  xxiii.  doubters  ;  his  alio  was  the  pale  Colours,. 
27.  Mr.  Corruption  was  the  ftandard- 
bearer  ;  and  he  had  for  his  fcutcheon  a  Scull,  and: 
dead  meris  Bones* 

9.  The  ninth  captain  was  Captain  Paft-hope,  he 

~*.      .         was  Captain  of  thofe  that  are  called 

D    '    .'.     y*  the  Felicity-doubters   ;    his  ftandard- 
Rom.  11.  c.    ,  yn,    -n,  r    .     u.     I/- 

J     bearer  was  Mr.  Defpair;  his  alio  were 

the  red  Colours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was  the  hot  Iron,. 

qnd  the  hard  Heart. 

Thefe  were  their  Captains,  and  thefe  were  their 

forces,  thefe  were  their  fh'ndards, thefe  were  their 

colours,  and  thefe  were  their    fcutcheons.     Now 

over  thefe  did  the  great  Diabolus   make   fupericr 

Captains,  and  they    were   in   number   feven  ;    as 

namely,  the  Lord  Beelzebub,  the   Lord   Lucifer, 

t.he  Lord  Legion,   and    the   Lord   Apullyon,    the 

Lord  Python,  the  Lord  Ceiberus,  and  the   Lord 

Belial  :   thefe  feven  he  fet  over  the  Captains,  and 

Incredulity  was  lord  general,  and    Diabolus  was 

King. 

"Diabolus         The  reformades  alfo,    fuch    as   were 

his  army     like   themfelves,    were   made 'IV: 

completed,  them  Captains  of  hundreds,   and  fome 


The   HOLY    WAR.  2^ 

of  them  captains  of  more  :  and  thus  was  the   ar-% 
my  of  Incredulity  completed. 

So  they  fet  out  at  Hellgate-hill  (for  there  they 
had  their  rendezvous)from  whence  they  came  with 
a  flraightcourfe  upon  their  march  towards  theTown 
of  manlbul.  Now,  as  was  hinted  before,the  Town 
had,  as  Shaddai  would  have  it,  received  from  the 
mouth  of  Mr.  Pry  well  the  alarm  of  their  coming 
before  :  wherefore  they  fet  a  itrong  watch  at  the 
gates,  and  had  alfo  doubled  their  guards ;  they 
alfo  mounted  their  flings  in  good  places,  where 
they  might  conveniently  caft  out  their  great 
(tones  to  the  annoyance  of  the  furious  enemy. 

Nor  could  thefe  Diabolonians  that  were  in  the 
Town  do  that  hurt  as  was  defigned  they  mould  ; 
for  manfoul  was  now  awake.  But,  alas  i  poor 
people,  they  were  forely  affrighted  at  the  firfb  ap- 
pearance of  their  foes,  and  at  their   fitting  down 

P  t  8  before  the  Town, cfpecially  when  they 
'  heard  the  roaringof  their  drum  :  this, 
to  fpeak  truth,  was  amazingly  hideous  to  hear,  it 
frighted  all  men  feven  miles  round,  if  they  were 
but  awake  and  heard  it.  The  ftreaming  of  their 
colours  was  alfo  terrible  and  dejecting  to  behold. 
When  Diabolus  was  come  up  againfl  the  Town, 
He  makes  firft  he  made  his  approach  to  Ear-gate, 
an  ajfault  and  gave  it  a  furious  affaulr,  fuppofing 
upon  Ear-  (as  it  feems)  that  his  friends  in  man- 
gate,  and  if  foul  had  been  ready  to  do  the  work 
repelled,  within  ;  but  care  was  taken  of  that 
before  by  the  vigilance  of  the  captains.  Where- 
fore,miffing  of  the  help  that  he  expected  from  them, 
and  finding  of  his  army  warmly  attended  with  the 
ftones  that  the  flingers  did  fling  (for  that  I  will  fay 
for  the  captains,  that,  confidering  the  weaknefs 
that  yet  was  upon  them  by  reafon  of  the  long  fick- 
nefs  that  had  annoyed  the  Town  of  manfbul,they 


25o  The    HOLY    WAR. 

He  retreats  did  gallantly  behave  themfelves)  he 
end  in-  was  forced  to  make  fome  retreat  from 
trenches  manfoul,  and  to  intrench  himfelf  and 
himfelf.  his  men  in  the  field,  without  the 
Jam.  iv.  7-  reach  of  flings  of  the  Town. 

Now,  having  intrenched  himfelf,  he  did  call  up 
four  mounts  againft  the  Town  ;  the  firft  he  called 
He  cajls  up  Mount  Diabolus,  putting  his  own 
mounts  name  thereon,  the  more  to  affright  the 
againft  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  the  other  three  he 
Town.  called   thus,    Mount    Alecto,    Mount 

Megasre,  and  Mount  Tiiiphone  ;  for  thefe  are 
the  names  of  the  dreadful  furies  of  hell.  Thus  he 
began  to  play  his  game  with  manfoul,  and  to 
ferve  it  as  doth  the  lion  his  prey,  even  to  make  it 
fall  before  his  terror.  But,  as  I  faid,  the  captains 
and  foldiers  refilled  fo  (toutly,  and  did  fuch  exe- 
cution with  their. flones, that  they  made  him  (thor 
agamft  ftomach)  to  retreat  :  wherefore  manfoul 
began  to  take  courage. 

Now,  upon  Mount  Diabolus,  which  was  raifed 
Diabolus'  on  the  north  fide  of  the  Town,  there 
ftandard  did  the  tyrant  let  up  his  ilandard, 
fet  up.  and  a  fearful  thing  it  was  to  behold  ; 
for  he  had  wrought  in  it  by  devilifh  art,,  after 
the  manner  of  a  fcutcheon,  a  flaming  flame,  fear- 
ful to  behold,  and  the  picture  of  Manfoul  burning 
in  it. 

When  Diabolus  had  thus  done,  he  commanded 
He  bids  his  that  his  drummer  ihould  every  night 
drummer  approach  the  walls  of  the  Town  of 
to  beat  a  manfoul,  and  fo  beat  a  parley  ;  the 
■parley.  command  was  to  do  it  every  night,for 
in  the  day-time  they  annoyed  him  with  their  flings: 
for  the  tyrant  faid,  that  lie  had  a-mind  to  parley 
with  the  now-trembling  Town  of  manfoul, and  he 
commanded  that  the  drums  mould  beat  every  night, 


The    HOLY    WAR.  2yi 

that  through  wearinefs  they  might  at  J  aft,  if  pof- 
fible  (at  the  firit  they  were  unwilling,  yet)  be 
forced  to  do  it. 

So  this  drummer  did  as  commanded,  he  arofc 
and  did  beat  his  drum  ;  but  when  his  drum  did 
go,  if  one  looked  toward  the  town  of  manfoul, 
Tr  "  behold   darknefs    and   forrow,  and 

j a,  v.  30,  u  tjie  light  was  darkened  in  the  hea- 
"  ven  thereof."  No  voice  was  ever  heard  upon 
earth  more  terrible,  except  the  voice  of  Shaddai 
Manfoul  when  he  fpeaketh.  But  how  did  man- 
trembles.  foul  tremble  !  it  now  looked  for  noth- 
ing but  forthwith  to  be  fwallowed  up. 

When  this  drummer  had  beaten  for  a  parley,he 
Drummer's  made  his  fpeech  to  manfoul  :  "  My 
fpeecb  :  mafter  has  bid  me  tell  you,  that  if 
ye  will  willingly  fubmit,  you  lhall  have  the  good 
of  the  earth  ;  but  if  ye  (hall  be  ftubborn,  he  is 
refolved  to  take  you  by  force."  But,  by  that  the 
fugitive  had  done  beating  of  his  drum  the  people 
of  manfoul  had  betaken  themfelves  to  the  captains 
that  were  in  the  Caftle,  fo  that  there  was  none  to 
regard  nor  to  give  this  drummer  an  anfwer  ;  fo 
he  proceeded  no  further  that  night,  but  returned 
again  to  his  mafter  to  the  camp. 

When  Diabolus  faw  that  by  drumming  he  could 
not  work  out  manfoul  to  his  will,  the  next  night 
He  is  fent  he  fendeth  his  drummer  without  his 
without  his  drum,  ftill  to  let  the  townfmen  know 
drum.  that    he  had   a-mind   to   parley  with, 

them.  But,  when  all  came  to  all,  his  parley  was 
turned  into  a  fumqions  to  the  Town  to  deliver  up 
themfelves  ;  but  they  neither  gave  him  heed  nor 
hearing  ;  for  they  remembered  what,  -at  flrii:,  it 
coft  them  to  hear  him  a  few  words. 

The  next  night  he  fends' again,  and  then  who 
fiionld  be  his  meflenger   tQ  manfoul  but  the  tcr- 


•jf  The    HOLY      WAR. 

rible  Captain  Sepulchre  ?  So  Captain  Sepulchre 
came  up  to  the  walls  of  man  foul,  and  made  this 
oration  to  the  Town  : 

"Oye  inhabitants  of  the  rebellious  town  of 
Manfoul  manfoul,  I  fummon  you,  in  the  name 
fummoned  of  the  prince  Diabolus,  that  without 
by  Captain  any  more  ado  you  fet  open  the  gates 
Sepulchre  :  of  your  Town,  and  admit  the  great 
lord  to  come  in  ;  but  if  you  mall  {till  rebel, when 
we  have  taken  to  us  the  Town  by  force,  we  will 
fwallow  you  up  as  the  grave  :  wherefore,  if  you 
will  hearken  to  my  fummons,  fay  fo  ;  and  if  not, 
then  let  me  know. 

"  The  reafon  of  this  my  fummons,"  quoth  he, 
u  is,  for  that  my  lord  is  your  undoubted  piince 
and  lord,  as  you  yourfelves  have  formerly  owned. 
Nor  (hall  that  afTault  which  was  given  to  my  lord, 
when  Emmanuel  dealt  fo  difhonourably  by  him, 
prevail  with  him  to  loofe  his  right,  and  to  forbear 
to  attempt  to  recover  his  own.  Confider  then,  O 
manfoul,  with  thyfelf,  wilt  thou  mow  thyfelf 
peaceable  or  not  :  If  thou  malt  quietly  yield  up 
thyfelf,  then  our  old  friendfhip  ihall  be  renewed ; 
but  if  thou  -(halt  refufe  and  rebel,  then  expecl  no- 
thing but  fire  and  ("word." 

When  the  languilhing  town  of  manfoul  had 
.They  an-  heard  this  fummoner  and  his  fummons, 
fwerbhn  they  were  yet  more  put  to  their 
not  :  dumps,   but  made  to  the  captain  no 

anfwer  at  all  ;  fo  away  he  went  as  he  came. 

But  after  fome  confultation  among  themfelves, 
They  ad-  as  alfo  with  fome  of  their  captains, 
drefs  them-  they  applied  themfelves  afrefh  to  the 
[elves  to  Lord  Secretary  for  counfel  and  advice 
their  good  from  him  ;  for  this  Lord  Secretary 
Lord  Secre-  was  their  chief  Preacher  (as  alfo  is 
tary.  mentioned  fome  pages  before)   only 


The    HOLY    WAR.  *yg 

now  he  was  /'//  at  eafe  ;  and  of  him  they   begged 
favour,  in  thofe  two  or  three  things  : 

1.  That  he  would  look  comfortably  upon  them, 
and  not  keep  himfelf  fo  much  retired  from  them 
as  formerly  ;  alio,  that  he  would  be  prevailed 
with  to  give  them  a  hearing,  while  they  mould 
make  known  their  miserable  condition  to  him. 
But  to  this  he  told  them  as  before,  u  That  as  yet 
he  was  but  ill  at  eafe,  and  therefore  could  not  do 
as  he  had  formerly  done." 

2.  The  fecond  thing  that  they  defired  was,That 
he  would  be  pleafed  to  give  themhis  advice  about 
their  now  fo  important  affairs  ;  for  that  Diabo- 
lns  was  come  and  fet  down  before  the  town  with 
no  le'fs  than  twenty  thoufand  Doubters  ;  they 
faid  moreover,  that  both  he  and  his  captains  were 
cruel  men,  and  that  they  were  afraid  of  them. 
But  to  this  he  faid,  "  You  mult  look  to  tne  law  of 
the  Prince,  and  there  fee  what  is  laid  upon  you 
to  do." 

3.  Then  they  defired  that  his  Highnefs  would 
help  them  to  frame  a  petition  to  Shaddai,  and  un- 
to Emmanuel  his  Son  ;  and  that  he  would  fet  his 
own  hand  thereto,  as  a  token  that  he  was  one 
with  them  in  it  :  "For,"  faiil  they,  "my  Lord/ma- 
ny a  one  have  we  fent,  but  can  get  no  anfwer  of 
peace  ;  but  now,  fureJy,  one  with  thy  hand  unto 
it  may  obtain  good  for  manfoul ." 

But  all  the  anfwer  that  he  gave  to  this  v/r-. 
The  can  ft  "That  they  had  offended  their  Env- 
of  his  being  manuel,  and  had  alio  grieved  himfelf; 
ill  at  eafe,  and  that  therefore  they  mufl,  as  yet, 
partake  of  their  own  devices." 

This  anfwer  of  the  Lord  Secretary  fell    like   a 

miiitone  upon  them  ;  yea,  it  crufhed  them  fo,that 

they  could  not  tell  what  to  do  :  yet  rhey  durif  not 

comply  with  the  demands  of  Diabolus,   nor1  muh 

Y 


2J4  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Lam.  i.  3.  the  demands  of  his  captains.  So  then 
The  fad  here  were  the  llraits  that  the  town  of 
(traits  of  manfoul  was  betwixt,  when  the  enemy 
Manfoul.  came  upon  her ;  her  foes  were  ready 
to  fwallow  her  up,  and  her  friends  did  forbear  to 
helpber. 

Then  flood  up  my  Lord  Mayor,  whofe  name 
was  my  Lord  Underilanding,and  he  began  to  pick 
and  pick,  until  he  had  picked  comfort  out  of  that 
ieemingly  bitter  faying  of  the  Lord  Secretary  ; 
•for  thus  he  defcanted  upon  it:  "For,"  faid  he, 
A  comment  "this  unavoidably  follows  upon  the 
upon  the  faying  of  my  Lord's,  That  we  mull 
Lord  Secre-  yet  fuffer  for  our  fins.  2  But,"  quoth 
taty's  he,  "the  word  yet  founds  as  if  at   lad 

fpeeck.  We  mould  be  faved  from  our  enemies ; 
and  that, after  a  few  more  forrows,Emmanuel  will 
come  and  be  our  help."  Now  the  Lord  Mayor 
was  the  more  critical  in  his  dealing  with  the  Secre- 
tary's words,  becaufe  my  Lord  was  more  than  a 
prophet ;  and  becaufe  none  of  his  words  were  fuch, 
but  that  at  all  times  they  were  mod  exaclly  figni- 
ficant,  and  the  tonwfmen  were  allowed  to  pry  into 
them,and  to  expound  them  to  their  bell  advantage. 
So  they  took  their  leave  of  my  Lord,  and  re- 
turned, and  went,  and  came  to  the  captains,  to 
whom  they  did  tell  what  my  Lord  high  Secretary 
had  faid  ;  who,when  they  had  heard  it, were  all  of 
the  fame  opinion  as  was  my  Lord  Mayor  himfelf ; 
the  captains, therefore,began  to  take  fome  courage 
unto  them,  and  prepare  to  make  fome  brave  at- 
tempt upon  the  camp  of  the  enemy,  and  to  de- 
flroy  all  that  were  Diabolonians,  with  the  roving 
Doubters,  that  the  tyrant  had  brought  with  him 
to  deflroy  the  poor  Town  of  manfoul. 

Soallbetook  themfelves  forthwith  to  their  places, 
the  captains  to  theirs,  the  Lord  Mayor  to  his,the 


The   HOLY   WAR.  255 

The  Town  fubordinate  Preacher  to  his,  and  my 
ofManfoul  Lord  Willbewill  to  his.  The  Cap- 
in  order.  tains  longed  to  be  at  fome  work  for 
their  Prince,  for  they  delighted  in  warlike  at- 
chievements.  The  next  day,  therefore,  they  came 
together  and  confuked,  and, after  confutation  had, 
they  refolved  to  give  an  anfwer  to  the  Captain  of 
Diabolns  with  flings  ;  and  fo  they  did  at  the  riling 
of  the  fun  on  the  morrow  ;  for  Diabolus  had  ad- 
ventured to  come  nearer  again,  but  thefling-frones 
were  to  him  and  his  like  hornets.  For  as  there  is 
nothing  to  the  Town  of  manfoul  fo  terrible  as  the 
roaring  of  Diabolus*  drum,  fo  there  is  nothing  to 
Diabolns  fo  terrible  as  the  well-playing  of  Emma- 
nuel's flings  ;  wherefore  Diabolus  was  forced  to 
make  another  retreat  yet  further  off  from  the  fa- 
mous Town  of  manfoul.  Then  did  the  Lord  Mayor 
Words  ap-  of  manfoul  caufe  the  bells  to  be  rung, 
plied  a-  and  that  thanks  mould  be  lent  to  the 
gain  ft  him  Lord  high  Secretary  by  the  mouxhof 
by  faith.  the  fubordinate  Preacher  ;  for  that 
Zech.ix.  iy.  by  his  words  the  Captains  and  ciders 
of  manfoul  had  been  flrengthened  againft  Dia- 
bolus. 

When  Diabolus  faw  that  his  Captains  and  fol- 
diers,  high  lords  and  renowned,  were  frightened 
and  beaten  down  by  the  (tones  that  came  from 
Diabolus  the  golden  flings  of  the  Prince  of 
changes  the  Town  of  manfoul,  he  bethought 
his  way.  himfelf,  and  faid,  I  will  try  to  catch 
them  by  fawning,  I  will  try  to  flatter  them  into 
my  net. 

Wherefore,  after  a  while  he  came  down  again  to 
the  wall,  not  now  with  his  drum,  nor  with  Cap- 
tain Sepulchre  ;  but,  having  all  befugard  his  lips, 
he  teemed  to  be  a  very  fweet-mouthed,  peaceable 
prince,  defTgning  nothing  for  humour's  fake,  nor 
Y  2 


2  56  Th  e    HOLY   WAR. 

to  be  revenged  oil  rrmnfoul  for  injuries  by  them 
done  to  him,  but  the  welfare,  and  good,  and  advan- 
tage of  the  Town,  and  people  therein,  was  now, 
as  he  laid,  his  only  deflgn.  Wherefore,  after  he 
had  called foraudience,anddefircd  that  the  Towns- 
folk would  give  it  to  him,  he  proceeded  in  his 
oration  ;  and  faid, 

"  O  the  defire  of  my  heart,  the  famous  town 
ofmanfoult  how  many  nights  have  I  watched, 
I  Pet.v.  8.  and  how  many  weary  ileps  have  I  ta- 
Rev.x'n.io.  ken, if  perhaps  I  might  do  thee  good  ! 
Far  be  it,  far  be  it  from  me  to  defire  to  make  war 
upon  you,  if  ye  will  but  willingly  and  quietly  de- 
liver up  yourfelves  unto  me.  You  know  that  you 
Mat.  iv.  8.  were  mine  of  old  :  remember  alfo,  that 
Luke  iv.  6,  fo  long  as  you  enjoyed  me  for  your 
7.  lord,  and  that  I   enjoyed  you   for  my 

Satan  reads  fubj eels, you  wanted  for  nothing  of  all 
all  back-  the  delights  of  the  earth  that  I,  your 
ward.  lord  and  prince,  could  get  for  you,  or 
that  I  could  invent,  to  make  you  bonny  and  bly  the 
withal.  Consider,  you  never  had  fo  many  hard, 
dark,  troublefome,and  heart  afflicting  hours,while 
you  were  mine,  as  you  have  had  fince  you  revol- 
ted from  me  ;  nor  fhall  you  ever  have  peace  again 
until  you  and  I  become  one  as  before.  But  be 
but  prevailed  with  to  embrace  me  again,  and  I 
Take  heed,  will  grant,  yea,  enlarge  your  old  char- 
ManffjuL  ter  with  abundance  of  privileges  ;  fo 
that  your  licence  and  liberty  ill  a  1 1  be  to  take  hold, 
enjoy,  and  make  your  own,  ail  that  is  pleafant, 
from  the  call:  to  the  weft  :  nor  fhall  any  of  thofe 
incivilities, wherewith  you  have  offended  me,  be 
ever  charged  upon  you  by  me,  fo  long  as  the  fun 
a.  and  moon  endure;    nor  fhall  any  of 

thofe  dear  friends  of  mine,  that  now, 
for  the  fear  of  you,lye  lurking  in  dens,  and  holes, 


The    HOLY   WAR,  25, 

and  caves  in  manfoul, be  hurtful  to  you  anymore, 
yea,they  ihall  be  your  fervanrs,  and  mall  nrnilter 
unto  you  of  their  fubftance,  and  of  whatev  II 

come  to  hand.     I  need  fpeak  no  more,  you  know 
The  flea-     them,  and  have  lbmetime   fmce   been 
fnre  of  fin.  much   delighted    in    their  company  ; 
why  then  fhoald  we  abide  at  fuch  odds  ?  Lcl 
renew  our  old  acquaintance  and  friendihip   ag; 

"Bear  with  your  friend,  I  take  the  liberty 
No,  no,  no  ;  this  time  to  fpeak  thus  freely  unto  you, 
not  upon  The  love  that  I  have  to  you  preffes 
fain  of '  eter-  me  to  doit,asalfo  does  the  zeal  of  my 
rial  damna-  heart  for  my  friends  with  you  ;  put 
tion.  me  not  therefore  to  further  trouble, 

nor  yourfelves  to  further  fears  and  frights.  Have 
you  I  will,  in  a  way  of  peace  or  war  :  nor  do  you 
flatter  yourfelves  with  the  power  and  force  of  your 
captains,or  that  your  Emmanuel  will  fhortly  come 
in  to  your  help  ;  for  fuch  itrength  will  do  you  no 
pleafure. 

JJI  am  come  againft  you  with  a  {tout  and  valiant 
army,  and  all  the  chief  Princes  of  the  den  are 
even  at  the  head  of  it  ;  befides,  my  captains  are 
fwifter  than  eagles,  flronger  than  lions,  and  are 
more  greedy  of  prey  than  are  the  evening-wojves. 
What  is  Og  of  Bafhan  !  what  is  Goliath  of 
Gath  !  and  what  is  an  hundred  more  of  them  zo 
one  of  the  leaft  of  my  captains  !  How  then  lhall 
manfoul  think  to  efcape  my  hand  and  force  ?*' 

Diabolus, having  thus  ended  his  flattering,  fa 
ing,  deceitful   and  lying   fpeech    to   cho   fiTAous 
Town  of  manfoul,  the  Lord  Mayor    replied  upon 
him,  as  folio ws  ; 

O  Diabolus,  prince  of  darknefs,  and  miaftcr  of 
The  Lord  all  deceit,  thy  lying  flatteries  jfre  have 
Mayor's  had,  and  made  fufficient  probation  of, 
anfwer.    and  have  tailed  too  deeply   of  that    de- 

Y3 


25S  The    HOLY   WAR. 

itruction-cup  already  :  fhould  we  therefore  again 
hearken  unto  thee,  and  fo  break  the  command- 
ments of.  our  great  Shaddai,  to  join  in  affinity 
with  thee, would  not  our  Prince  reject  us,and  call 
us  off  for  ever  ?  And,  being  caft  off  by  him,  can 
the  place  that  he  has  prepared  for  thee  be  a  place 
of  reil  for  us  ?  Befides,  O  thou  that  arc  empty 
and  void  of  all  truth,  we  are  rather  ready  to  die 
by  thy  hand  than  to  fall  in  with  thy  flattering 
and  lying  deceits." 

When  the  tyrant  faw  that  there  was  little  to 
be  got  by  parleying  with  my  Lord  Mayor,  he  fell 
into  an  hellifh  rage,  and  refolved  that  again, with 
his  army  of  Doubters,  he  would  another  time  af- 
fault  the  Town  ofmanfoul. 

So  he  called  for  his  drummer,  who  beat  up  for 
his  men(and, while  he  did  beat  manfoul  did  make) 
to  be  in  a  readinefs  to  give  battle  to  the  Corpo- 
ration ;  then  Diabolus  drew  near  with  his  army, 
and  thus  difpofed  of  his  men  :  Captain  Cruel  and 
Captain  Torment,  thefe  he  drew  up  and  placed 
P    j  againft      Feel-gate,      and    commanded 

~&  '  them  to  fit  down  there  for  the  war  ; 
and  he  alfo  appointed,  that,  if  need  were, Captain 
Jsl  Co  "No-cafe  mould  come  in  ro  their  relief  : 

,  ~&  'at  Nofe-gatc  they  placed  Captain  Brim- 
itone,  and  Capr.  Sepulchre,  and  bid  them  look 
well  to  their  ward  on  that  fide  of  the  Town  cf 
p  ifi  manfoul  ;  but   at   Eye-gate   he   placed 

that  grim  faced  one,  Captain  Pafthope, 
Ijfod  diere  alfo  now  he  did  let  his  terrible  Hand- 
srd. 

No--'  Captain  Infatiable  he  was  to  look  to  the 
-carriages  of  Diabolus,  and  was  alfo  appointed  to 
take  into  cirftody  that  or  thofc  perfons  and  things 
that  mould  at  any  time  as  prey  be  taken  from 
the  enemy. 


The    HOLY   WAR.  5y9 

Now  Mouth-gate,  the  inhabitants  of  man  foul 
M<?z///;kept  for  a  fally-port  ;  wherefore  that  they 
gate,  kept  ftrong,  for  that  was  it  by  and  out  at 
which  the  townsfolk  did  fend  their  petitions  to 
Emmanuel  their  Prince  ;  that  alio  was  the  gate 
The  vfe  of  from  the  top  of  which  the  Captains 
Mouth-  did  play  their  flings  at  the  enemies  ; 

gate.  for  that  gate  itood  lome  what  amend- 

ing ;  lb  that  the  placing  of  them  there,  and  the 
letting  of  them  fly  from  that  place,  did  mofl  exe- 
cution againlt  the  tyrant's  army  :  wherefore,  for 
thefe  caufes,  with  others,  Diabolus  fought,  if  pof- 
flble,  to  itop  up  Mouth-gate  with  dirt. 

Now,  as  Diabolus  was  bufy  and  induftrous  in 
preparing  to  make  his  aflault  upon  the  Town  of 
manfoul  without,  fo  the  Captains  and  foiditrs  la 
theCorporation  were  as  bufy  in  preparing  within; 
they  mounted  their  flings,  they  fet  up  their  ban- 
ners, they  founded  their  trumpets,  and  put  them- 
felves  in  fuch  order  as  was  judged  moil  for  the 
annoyance  of  the  enemy,  and  for  the  advantage 
of  manfoul,  and  gave  to  their  foldiers  orders  co 
be  ready  at  the  found  of  the  trumpet  for  war. 
The  Lord  The  Lord  Willbewill  alfo,  he  took 
IV'tUbe-ivM  the  charge  of  watching  again!!  the 
flays  the  rebels  within,  and  to  do  what  he 
man.  could  to  take  them  while  withour,or 

to  flifle  them  within  their  caves,  dens,  and  holes., 
in  the  Town-wall  of  manfoul.  And,  tofpeak  the 
truth  of  him,  ever  iince  he  did  pennance  for  his 
fault  he  has  fhewed  as  much  honcify  and  bravery 
of  fpirit  as  any  he  in  manfoul  ;  for  he  took  one 
Jolly  and  Jolly  and  his  brother  Greggiih,  the 
G+e'ggijh  two  fons  of  his  fervant  Harmlefs-mirth, 
tuken  and  (for  to  that  day,    though    the*  father 

itifd  \was     committed    to    ward,    the    fons 

I  a  dwelling  in  the  houfe  of  my  Lord)  I  fry, 


26o  The    HOLY    WAR. 

he  took  them,  and  with  his  own  hands  put  them 
to  the  crofs.  And  this  was  the  reafon  why  he 
hanged  them  up  :  After  their  father  was  put  into 
the  hands  of  Mr.  True-man  the  jailer,  they  (his 
fons)  began  to  play  their  pranks,  and  to  be  tick- 
ing and  toying  with  the  daughters  of  their  Lord; 
nay,  it  was  jealoufed  that  they  were  too  familiar 
with  them,  the  which  was  brought  to  his  Lord- 
ihip's  ear.  Now  his  Lordlhip,  being  unwilling 
unadvifedly  to  put  any  man  to  death,  did  noc 
fuddenly  fall  upon  them,  but  fet  watch  and  fpies 
to  fee  if  the  thing  was  true  ;  of  the  which  he  was' 
foon  informed  ;  for  his  two  fervants  whofe  names 
were  Find-out  and  Tell-all,catched  them  together 
in  uncivil  manner  more  than  once  or  twice,  and 
went  and  told  their  lord  :  fo,  when  my  Lord 
Willbewill  had  fufficient  ground  to  believe  the 
thing  was  true,  he  takes  the  two  young  Diabolo- 
nians,  for  fuch  they  were,  (for  their  father  was  a 
Diabolonian  born)  and  has  them  to  Eye-gate, 
where  he  railed  a  very  high  crofs  juft  in  the  face 
The -place of  of  Diabolus  and  of  his  army,  and 
their  exe-  there  he  hanged  the  young  villains, 
cution,  in  defiance  to  Captain  Paithope,  and 

of  the  horrible  ftandard  of  the  tyrant. 

Now  this  Chriilian  act  of  the  brave  Lord  Will- 
Mortifica-  bewill  did  greatly  abafh  Captain  Paft- 
tion  of  fin  hope,  difcouragedthe  army  of  Diabo- 
is  a  fign  of  lus,  put  fear  into  the  Diabolonian  ru- 
hope  of  life,  ungates  in  manfoul,  and  put  ftrength 
and  courage  into  the  Captains  that  belonged  to 
Emmanuel  the  Prince;  for  they  without  did  gat  her, 
and  that  by  this  very  act  of  my  Lord,  that  man- 
foul  was  refolved  to  fight,  and  that  the  Di  U)olo- 
nians  within  the  Town  could  not  do  fudn  things 
as  Diabolus  had  hopes  they  would.  ,;r  w.<>  this 
the  only  proof  of  the  brave  L        vvr  lib cw Ill's  ho- 


The    HOLY    WAR.  26c 

nefty  to  the  Town,  nor  of  his  loyalty  to  his 
Prince,  and  will  afterwards  appear. 

Now, when  the  children  of  Prudent-thrifty,who 
dwelt  with  Mr.  Mind  (for  Thrift  left  children  with 
Mr.  Mind  when  he  was  alfo  committed  to  prifon, 
and  theirnames  were  Gripe  and  Rake-all,  thefc  he 
begat  of  Mr.  Mind's  baftard  daughter,whofename 
was  MrsHold-falt-bad)  I  fay,  when  his  children 
perceived  how  theLordWillbewillhad  ferved  them 
that  dwelt  with  him,  what  do  they  but  (kit  they 
ihould  drink  of  the  fame  cup)  endeavour  to  make 
Mr.  Mind  their  efcape  :  but  Mr.  Mind,  being 
flays  the  wary  of  it, took  them, and  put  them  in 
man.  .  hold  in  his  houfe  till  morning  (for  this 
was  done  over  night)  and  remembering  that  by  the 
law  of  manfoul  all  Diabolonians  were  to  die,  and 
to  be  fure  they  were  at  lead  by  father's  fide  fuch, 
and  fome  fay  by  mother's  fide  too  ;  what  does  he 
but  takes  them  and  puts  them  in  chains,  and  car- 
ries them  to  the  felf-fame  place  where  my  Lord 
hanged  his  two  before,and  there  he  hanged  them, 

The  townfmen  alfo  took  great  encouragement 
Manfoul  fet  at  this  ad  of  Mr.  Mind,  and  did  what 
againfl  the  they  could  to  have  taken  fome  more 
Diaboto-  of  thefe  Diabolonians,  troublers  of 
mans.  manfoul  ;  but  at  that  time  the  reft  lay 

fo  quiet  and  clofe  that  they  could  not  be  appre- 
hended ;  fo  they  fet  againfl  them  a  diligent 
watch,  and  went  every  man  to  his  place.  . 

I  told  you  a  little  before,  that  Diabolus  and  hi> 
army  were.fomewhat  abafhed  and  difcouraged  at 
the  fight  of  what  my  Lord^illbewill  did,  when 
Diabofus  he  hanged  up  thole  two  young  Diabo- 
his  kind-  Ionians  ;  but  his  difcouragement  quick- 
nefs  turned  ly  turned  itfelf  into  furious  madnefs 
into  furious  and  rage  againft  the  Town  of  man- 
madnefs.      foul,  and  fight  it  ha  would.      Alfo  the 


262  The   HOLY     WAR. 

townfmen  and  captains  within,  they  had  their 
hopes  and  their  expectation  heightened,  believing 
at  lafttheday  would  be  theirs  ;fo  they  feared  them 
the  Jefs.  Their  fubordinate  Preacher  too  made  a 
fermoh  about  it,  and  be  took  that  theme  for  his 
G?n.  xlix.  text,  "  Gad,  a  troop  mall  overcome 
19.  him,    but    he  dull    overcome  at   the 

latt."  Whence  he  fhewed,  that  though  manfoul 
Ihould  be  forely  put  to  it  at  the  firft,yet  the  vic- 
tory mould  moil  certainly  be  manfoul's  ar  laft. 

SoDi-ibolus  commanded  that  hUdrummer  fliould 
beat  a  charge  againlt  the  Town,  and  the  captains 
alio  that  were  in  the  Town  founded  a  charge  a- 
gainft  them  ;  but  they  had  no  drum,  they  were 
trumpets  of  filver  with  which  they  founded  againft 
them,  when  they  which  were  of  the  camp  of 
tVith  heart  Diabulus  came  down  to  the  Town  to 
and  mouth,  take  it  ;  and  the  captains  in  the  caf- 
tle,  with  rhe  ilingers  at  Mouth-gate,  played  upon 
them  amain.  And  now  there  was  nothing  heard  in 
the  camp  of  Diabolus  but  horrible  rage  and  blaf- 
phemy ;  but  in  the  Town  good  words, prayer,  and 
finging  of  pfalms  :  the  enemy  replied  with  horrible 
objections,  and  the  terriblenefs  of  their  drum  ; 
but  the  Town  made  an  anfwer  with  the  flapping 
of  their  flings,  and  the  melodious  noife  of  their 
trumpets.  And  thus  the  fight  Jailed  for  feveral 
days  together,  only  now  and  then  they  had  fome  * 
fmall  intermiffion,  in  the  which  the  townfmen  re-  ' 
frelhed  rhemfelves,  and  the  captains  made  ready 
for  another  afTauIt. 

The  captains  of  Emmanuel  were  clad  in  filver  ; 
armour,  and  the  foJdiers  in  that  which  was  of 
proof  ;  the  foldiers  of  Diabolus  were  clad  in  iron, 
which  was  made  to  give  place  to  Emmanuel's  en- 
gine fhot.  In  the  Town  fome  were  hnrr,and  fome 
were  greatly  wounded.  Now,  the  worll  on't  was, 


*v* 


The     HOLY    WAR.  263 

a  chirurgeon  was  fcarce  in  manfoul,  for  that  Em- 
manuel at  prefent  was  abfcnt.  Howbeit,  with  the 
i?drj.xxii.2.1eavesofatree  the  wounded  were  kept 
.jyixxxviii^.from  dying  ;  yet  their  wounds  did 
oreatly  putrify,  and  fome  did  grievoufly  flink.  Of 
the  townfmen  thefe  were  wounded,  to  wit, 

My  Lord  Reafon,  he  was  wounded  in  the  head. 
Who  of  Another  that  was  wounded  was  the 
Manfoul  brave  Lord  Mayor,  he  was  wounded 
were  in  the  eye. 

wounded.  Another  that  was  wounded  was 
Mr.  Mind,  he  received  his  wound  about  the  flo- 
mach. 

The  honeft  fubordinate  Preacher  alfo,  he  recei- 
ved a  (hot  not  far  off  the  heart  ,  but  none  of  thefe 
were  mortal. 

Hopeful  Many  alfo  of  the  inferior  fort  were  not 
thoughts,     only  wounded,  but  ilain  out-right. 

Now  in  the  camp  of  Diabolus  were  wounded 
IVho  in  the  and  ilain  a  coniiderable  number.  For 
camp  of  Di-  inftance, 

aholus  were  Captain  Rage,  he  was  wounded,  and 
wounded  fo  was  Captain  Cruel. 
andjlain.  Captain  Damnation  was  made  to  re- 
treat,and  to  intrench  himfelf  further  off  from  man* 
foul  ;  the  ftandard  alfo  of  Diabolus  was  beaten 
down,  and  his  flandard-bearer,  Captain  Much" 
hurt,  had  his  brains  beat  out  with  a  fling-ftone,to 
\  the  no  little  grief  and  fhameof  his  prince  Diabolus. 

Many  alfo  of  the  Doubters  were  ilain  outright, 
though  enough  of  them  are  left  alive  to  make  man- 
'The  viclory  foul  make  and  totter.  Now  the  vic- 
did  turn  tory  that  day  being  turned  to  man- 
that  day  foul,  did  put  great  valour  into  the 
to  man-  townfmen  and  captains,  and  did  co- 
fou/y  &c.  ver  Diabolus*  camp  with  a  cloud,  but 
i  withal  it  made  them  far  more  furious.  So  the  next 


264  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

day  manfoul  relied,  and  commanded  that  the  bells 
mould  be  rung  ;  the  trumpets  alio  joyfully  founded, 
and  the  Captains  fhouted  round  the  Town. 

My  Lord  Willbewill  alio  was  not  idle,  but  did 
notable  fervice  within  again  ft  the  domeftics  or 
the  Diabolonians,  that  were  in  the  Town  not  only 
by  keeping  of  them  in  awe,  for  he  lighted  on  one 
Any-thhig  at  hit, whole  name  was  Mr.Any-thing, 
andLoofe-  a  fellow  of  whom  mention  was  made 
foot  com-  before;  for  'twas  he,  if  you  remember, 
milted  by  that  brought  the  three  fellows  to  Dia- 
Lord ^7//- bolus  whom  the  Diabolonians  took 
bewi/L  out  of  Captain  Boanerges'  companies, 
and  that  perfwaded  them  to  lift  themfelves  under 
the  tyrant,  to  fight  againit  the  army  of  Shaddai  : 
My  Lord  Willbewill  did  alfo  take  a  notable  Dia- 
bolonian,  v/hofe  name  was  Loofefoot ;  thisLoofe- 
foot  was  a  fcout  to  the  vagabonds  in  manfoul, 
and  that  did  ufe  to  carry  tidings  out  of  manfoul 
to  the  camp,  and  out  of  the  camp  to  thofe  of  the 
enemies  in  manfoul.  Both  thefe  my  Lord  fent 
away  fafe  to  Mr.  True-man  the  jailer,  with  a  com- 
mandment to  keep  them  in  irons  ;  for  he  intend- 
ed then  to  have  them  out  to  be  crucified,  when  ic 
would  be  for  the  belt  to  the  Corporation,  and 
molt  for  the  difcouragement  of  the  camp  cf  the 
enemies. 

My  Lord  Mayor  alfo,  though  he  could  not  ftir 
about  fo  much  as  formerly,  becaufe  of  the  wound 
that  he  lately  received,  yet  gave  he  out  orders  to 
all  that  were  the  natives  of  manfoul,  to  look  to 
their  watch,  and  iland  upon  their  guard,  and,  as 
occafion  mould  offer,  to  prove  themfelves   men. 

Mr.Confcience  the  Preacher,  he  alfo  did  his  ut- 
molt  to  keep  all  his  good  documents  alive  upon 
the  hearts  of  the  people  of  manfoul. 

Well,  a  while  after,  the  Captains  and  it  out  ones 


The   HOLY    WAR.  265 

The  Cap-  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  agreed  and  re- 
■  tains  con-h\ved  upon  a  time  to  make  a  fally  out 
fulttofall  upon  the  camp  of  Diabolus;  and  this 
upon  the  mud  be  done  in  the  night,  and  there 
enemy,.  was  the  folly  of  manfoul  ;  (for  the 
night  is  always  the  bell  for  the  enemy,  but  the 
worfl  for  manfoul,  to  fight  in;)  but  yet  they  would 
do  it,  their  courage  was  fo  high  ;  their  lait  victory 
alio  fttll  {tuck  in  their  memories. 

So  the  night  appointed  being  come,  the  Prince's 
They  fight  brave  Captains*calt  lots  who  mould 
in  the  night,  lead  the  van  in  this  new  and  defperatc 
IVho  led  the  expedition  againft  Diabolus,  and  a- 
van.  gainlt  his  Diabolonian  army  ;  and  the 

lot  fell  to  Captain  Credence,  ro  Captain  Experience, 
and  to  Captain Goodhope  to  lead  the  Forlornhope, 
(This  Captain  Experience  the  Prince  created  fuch, 
when  himfelf  did  refide  in  the  Town  of  nirinfoul.) 
So,  as  I  faid,  they  made  their  fally  out  upon  the 
rr  r  army  that  lay  in  the  liege  again  It  them  ; 
r  , ,  *  and  their  hap  was  to  fall  in  with  the  main 
*  '      body  of  their  enemies.     Now  Diabolus 

and  his  men,  being  expertly jiccuftomed  to  night- 
work,  took  the  alarm  prefently,  and  were  as  ready 
to  give  them  battle  as  if  they  had  fent  them  word 
of  their  coming  :  wherefore  to  it  they  went  amain, 
and  blows  were  heard  on  every  fide:  the  hell-drum 
alio  was  beat  molt  furiouily,  while  the  rrumpetsof 
the  Prince  moll  fwectly  founded.  Arid  thus  the 
battle  was  joined  ;  and  Captain  Infatiable  looked 
to  the  enemy's  carriages,  and  waited  when,  he 
mould  receive  fome  prey. 

The  Prince's  Captains  fought  it  ftoutly,  beyond 

T*>     -R  It  w*iat  indeed   could  be   expected    they 

l'  i,/J    moul#  ;    they    wounded  many,    they 

-  "    made  the  whole  army  of  Diabolus   to 

make  a  retreat.     But  I  cannot  tell  how,  but   the 

Z 


266  The    HOLY   WAR. 

brave  Captain  Credence,  Captain  Goodhope,  and 

Captain  Experience,  as  they  were  upon  the    pur- 

fuit  cutting  down  and  following  hard  after    the 

Captain     enemy  in  the  rear,   Captain   Credence 

Credence  Humbled     and    fell,   by  which  fall  he 

hurt  :         caught  fo  great  a  hurt  that    he   could 

rot  rife,  till  C.iptain  Experience  did  help  him  up  ; 

at  which  their  men  were  put  in  diforder :  theCaptain 

alfo  was  fo  full  of  pain  that  he  could  not  forbear 

but  aloud  to  cry  out;  at  this  theothertwoCaptains 

The  reft  of  fainted,  fuppofing  that  Captain    Cre- 

ths  Captains  dence  had  received  his  mortal  wound  ; 

faint.  their  men  alfo  were  more  disordered, 

and  had  no  lift  to  fight.  Now,  Diabolus  being  very 

obferving,  though  at  this  time  as  yet  he  was   put 

to  the  woril:,  perceiving  that  an  halt  was  made  a- 

mong  the  men  that  were  the  puafuers,  what  does 

he,  buttakingit  for  granted  that  theCaptainswere 

either  wounded  or  dead,he  therefore  at  firft  makes 

a  Hand,  then  faces  about,  and  fo  comes  up   upon 

Diabolus  the  Prince's  army  with  as  much   of  ^is 

takes  con-  fury  as  hell  could  help  him   to  5    and 

ruge%         his  hap  was  to  fall  in  jufl  among  the 

three  Captains,  Captain  Credence,  Captain  Good- 

Jiope,  and  Captain  Experience,  and  did  cut,  wound, 

The  Prince's  and  pierce  them  fo  dreadfully,  that 

forces  what  through  difcouragement,  what 

beaten.  through  diforder,  and  what  through 

the  wounds  that  now  they  had  received,  and  alfo 

the  lofs  of  much  blood,  they  fcarce  were  able, 

though  they  had  for  their  power  the   three   belt 

bands  in  manfoul,  to  get  fafe  into  the  hold  again. 

Now,  when  the  body  of  the  Prince's  army  faw 

Sometimes     how  thefe  three  Captains  were  put  to 

Saianmakes  the  worit,  tlrey  thought  it  their  wif- 

faints  cat      dom  to  make  as  fafe  and  good   a   re- 

th:ir  zvords,  treat  as  they  could,  and  fo  returned 


The    HOLY    WAR.  267 

by  the  fallyport  again  ;  and  fo  there^was  an  end 
of  this  prefent  action.  But  DiaboJ^' was  lb  fluih- 
n.  ;   .      ed  with  the  night's  wore,  that  he   pro- 

am d-  n,ifed himfc]f> in a  fevv  da>rSj  an  eM'y 

*  y  e  '  and  complete  conqueft  over  the  Town 
of  man  foul  ',    wherefore,on  the  day  folio  wing  he 

rr   j         j  comes  up  to  the  fides  thereof  with 

tie  demands  L  ,v  ^         ,  ,  •  * 

w    cr  great  ojldnefs,  and  demands  entrance, 

the  TqZV/2.        &     ,      ,  c        •        .   ,       1  ii«  1 

and  that  forthwith  they  deliver  them- 
felves  up  ro  his  government.  (The  Dhbolonians, 
too,  that  were  within,  they  began  to  be  fome- 
what  brifk,  as  we  mall  mew  afterwards.) 

But  the  valiant  Lord  Mayor  replied,  That  what 
The  Lord  he  got  he  rauft  get  by  force  ;  for  as 
Mayor's  an-  long  as  Emmanuel  their  Prince  was 
fiver.  alive  (though  he  at  prefent    was   not 

fo)  with  them  as  they  wiJhed,  they  fhould  never 
conlent  to  yield  manfoul  up  to  another 

And  with  that  the  Lord  Willbcwill  flood  up. 
Brave  Will-  and  faid  "Diabolus,  thou  mafler  of 
bev/ill's  the  den, and  enemy  to  all  that  is  good, 
fpeecb.  we  poor  inhabitants  of  the  Town  of 

manfoul  are  too  well  acquainted  with  thy  rule  and 
government, and  with  the  end  of  theie  things  that 
for  certain  will  follow-fubmittingto  thee'jft)  do  it. 
Wherefore  though, while  we  we're  without  know- 
ledge, we  fuifered  thee  to  take  us(as  the  bird  that 
faw  not  the  fnare  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  fow- 
ler) yet,  flncc  we  have  been  turned  from  darknefs 
to  light, we  have  alfo  been  turned  from  the  power 
of  Satan  to  God.  And  though  through  thy  fub- 
tiky,  and  alfo  the  fubtilty  of  the  Diabolonians 
within,  we  have  fuftained  much  lofs,  and  alfo 
plunged  ourfelves  into  much  perplexity  ;  yet  give 
up  ourfelves,  lay  down  our  arms,  and  yield  to  fo 
horrid  a  tyrant  as  thou,  we  fhall  not  ;  die  upon 
the  place  we  chufe  rather  to  do.  Bcfides,wchave 
Z2 


268  The    HOL  Y    WAR. 

hopes  that  in  time  deliverance  will  come  from 
Court  unto  us.  and  therefore  we  yet  will  main- 
tain a  war  againil  thee/' 

This  brave  fpeech  of  the  Lord  Willbewill,with 
The  cap-  that  alfo  of  the  Lord  Mayor,  did  fome- 
tains  en-  what  abate  the  boldnefs  of  Diabolus, 
couraged.  though  it  kindled  the  fury  of  his  rage. 
It  alfo  fuccoured  the  townfmen  and  captains ;  yea, 
it  was  aplaifter  to  the  brave  Captain  Credence 
his  wound  ;  for  you  muft  knew  that  a  brave 
fpeech  now,  when  the  captains  of  the  Town  with 
their  men  of  war  came  home  routed,  and  when 
the  enemy  took  courage  and  boldnefs  at  the  fuc- 
cefs  that  he  had  obtained  to  draw  up  to  the  walls, 
and  demand  entrance,  as  he  did,  was  in  feafon, 
and  alfo  advantageous. 

The  Lord  Willbewill  alfo  did  play  the  man 
within  ;  for,  while  the  captains  and  foldiers  were 
in  the  field,  he  was  in  arms  in  the  Town  ;  and, 
wherever  by  him  there  was  a  Diabolonian  found, 
they  were  forced  to  feel  the  weight  of  his  heavy 
hand,  and  alfo  the  edge  of  his  penetrating  fword  : 
many,  therefore, of  the  Diabolonians  he  wounded, 
as  the  Lord  Cavil,  the  Lord  Brifk,  the  Lord  Prag- 
matick,  and  the  Lord  Murmur  ;  feveral  alfo  of 
the  meaner  fort  he  did  forely  maim,  though  there: 
cannot  at  this  time  2n  account  be  given  you  of  arr$ 
that  he  flew  outright.  The  caufe,  or  rather  the 
advantage,  that  my  Lord  Willbewill  had  at  this 
time  to  do  thus,  was,  for  that  the  captains  were 
gone  out  to  fight  the  enemy  in  the  field  :  for  now. 
thought  the  Diabolonians  within,  is  our  time  to 
flir  and  make  an  uproar  in  the  Town.  What  do 
they  therefore,  but  quickly  get  themfelves  into  a 
body,  and  fall  forthwith  to  hunicaning  in  rain- 
foul,  as  if  now  nothing  but  whirlwind  and  temped: 
fhould  be  there  :  wherefore,  as  I  faid,  he  takes  hig 


The   HOLY    WAR.  269 

IVillbevjiirs  opportunity  to  fall  in  among  them 
galantry.  with  his  men,  cutting  and  flaming 
with  courage  that  was  undaunted  ;  at  which  the 
Diabolonianswith  ail  hafte  diipened  themf  elves  to 
their  holds,  and  my  Lord  to  his  place  as  before. 

This  brave  act  of  my  Lord  did  fomewhat  re- 
Nothinv  venge  the  wrong  done  by  Diabolus  to 
like  faith  the  captains,  and  alfo  did  let  them  know 
to  crufb  that  manfoul  was  not  to  be  parted  with 
Diabolus.  for  the  lofs  of  a  victory  or  two  \  where- 
fore the  wing  of  the  tyrant  was  clipped  again  as 
to  boaiting,  I  mean,  in  comparifon  of  what  he 
would  have  done  if  the  Diabolonians  had  put  rhe 
Town  to  the  fame  plight  to  which  he  had  put  the 
captains. 

Well,  Diabolus  yet  refolves  to  have  the  other 
bout  with  manfoul  ;  for,  thought  he,  fince  I  beat 
them  once,  I  may  beat  them  twice  :  wherefore  he 
commanded  his  men  to  be  ready  at  fuch  an  hour 
of  the  night  to  make  afreili  affault  upon  the  Town, 
and  he  gave  it  out  in  fpecial  that  they  fliould  bend 
all  their  force  againft  Feel-gate,  and  attempt  to 
He  tries  ,  break  into  the  Town  through  that  ; 
what  he  can  the  word  that  then  he  did  give  to  his 
do  upon  the  officers  and  foldiers  was  Hell-fire  : 
fenfe  &  feel-  And,  faid  he,  if  we  break  in  upon 
ing  ofCkrif-  them,  as  I  wifh  we  do,  either  with 
tians.  fome  or  with  all  our  force,  let  theni. 

that  break  in  look  to  it  that  they  forget  not  the 
word  ;  and  let  nothing  be  heard  in  the  Town  of 
manfoul  but  Hell-fire,  Hell-fire,  Hell-fire.  "I 
drummer  was  alfo  to  beat  without  cea!lng,and  the 
flandard-bearers  were  to  difplay  their  colours  ; 
the  foldiers,  too,  were  to  put  on  what  courage 
they  could,  and  to  fee  that  they  played  manfully 
their  parts  againft  the  Town. 

So  the  night  was  come,  and  all  things   by   the 
Z3 


27o  The  HOLY    WAR. 

tyrant  nude  ready  for  the  work.  He  Suddenly 
makes  his  affault  upon  Feel-gate  ;  and, after  he  had 
a  while  Struggled  there,  he  throws  the  gate  wide 
Feel-gate  open  ;  for  the  truth  is,  thofe  gates  were 
lut  weak. but  weak,  and  fo  moil  eafily  made  to 
yield.  When  Diabolus  had  thus  far  made  his 
attempt,  he  placed  his  captains,  to  wit,  Torment 
and  No-eafe,  there  ;  fo  he  attempted  to  prefs  for- 
ward, but  the  Prince's  captains  came  down  upon 
him,  and  made  his  entrance  more  difficult  than  he 
defired.  And,  to  fpeak  truth,  they  made  what 
reiiitance  they  could  ;  but  three  of  their  bell  and 
moil  valiant  captains  being  wounded,and  by  their 
wounds  made  much  uncapable  of  doing  the  Town 
Thefe  three  that  fervice  they  would  (and  all  the 
captains  be-  refl  having  more  than  their  hands  full 
ing  difabled,oi  the  Doubters  and  their  captains 
rvbat  can  that  did  follow  Diabolus)  they  were 
the  rejl  do  overpowered  with  force,  nor  could 
for  the  town  they  keep  them  out  of  the  Town. 
of  Man  foul.  Wherefore  the  Prince's  men  and  their 
captains  betook  themfelves  to  the  CaStle,as  to  the 
Stronghold  of  the  Town  :  and  this  they  did,partly 
for  their  own  fecurity,  partly  for  the  fecurity  of 
the  Town;  and  partly,  or  rather  chiefly,  to  pre- 
serve to  Emmanuel  the  prerogative-royal  of  man- 
ibul,  for  fo  was  the  caltle  of  manfoul. 

The  captains,therefore,beingfled  into  the  Caflle, 
the  enemy,  without  much  refiflance,pofTefs  them- 
felves of  the  reit  of  the  Town, and  Spreading  them- 
felves, as  they  went,  JJ9&6  every  corner,they  cried 
out  as  the;}'-  marched, according  to  the  command  of 
the  tyrant,  Hell-fire,  Hell-fire,  Hell- fire  ;  fo  that 
nothing  for  a  while  throughout  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  could  be  heard  but  the  dreadful  noife  of  Hell- 
'fire,  together  with  the  roaring  of  Diabolus7  drum. 
And  now  did  the  clouds  hang  black  over  manfoul, 


The    HOLY    WAR.  2?t 

The  fad  nor  to  reafon  did  any  thing  but  ruin 
fruits  of  feem  to  attend  it.  Diabolus  alfo  quar- 
apojlacy,  tercd  his  foldiers  in  the  houfes  ct  the 
inhabitants  of  the  town  of  man  foul  :  yea,  the  fub- 
ordinate  Preacher's  houfe  was  as  full  of  thcfe  out- 
landiih  Doubters  as  ever  it  could  hold,  and  fo  was 
my  Lord  Mayor's,  and  my  Lord  Willbewill's  alfo; 
yea,  where  was  there  a  corner,  a  cottage,  a  barn, 
cr  a  hogftie,  that  now  was  not  full  of  thefe  ver- 
min ?  Yea,  they  turned  the  men  of  the  Town  put 
of  their  houfes,  and  would  lye  in  their  beds, and  lie 
at  their  tables  thcmlelves.  Ah,  poor  manfoul  ! 
now  thou  feeleft  the  fruits  of  fin, and  what  venom 
was  in  the  flattering  wordsof  Mr.  Carnal  Security  ! 
They  made  great  havock  of  whatever  they  laid 
their  hands  on  ;  yea, they  fired  the  Town  in  ieveral 
Guilu  places ;  many  young  children  alfo  were 
Good  and  by  them  dallied  in  pieces  ;  yea,  thcfe 
tender  that  were  yet  unborn  they  deftroyed 
thoughts,  in  their  mothers'  wombs  :  for  you  mult 
needs  think  that  it  could  not  now  be  otherwife  ; 
for  what  confeience,  what  pity,  what  bowels  or 
compalfion, can  any  expect  at  the  hands  of  outland- 
ilh  Doubters  ?  Many  in  manfoul  that  were  women, 
Holy  con-  both  young  and  old,  they  forced,  ra- 
ceptions  of  vifhed,  and  beaft-like  abufed,  Co  that 
good.  they  fwooned,    mifcarried,  and  many 

of  them  died,and  fo  lay  at  the  top  of  every  ltreer, 
and  in  all  bye-places  of  the  Town. 

And  now  did  manfoul  feem  to  be  nothing  but 
a  den  of  dragons,  an  emblem  of  hell,  and  a  place 
of  total  darknefs.  Now  did  manfoul  lye  (almoft) 
like  the  barren  wildernefs  ;  nothing  but  nettles, 
briers,  thorns,  weeds,  and  (linking  things,  feemed 
now  to  cover  the  face  of  manfoul.  I  told  you  be- 
fore how  that  thefe  Diabolonian  Doubters  turned 
*Re(t.       the  men  of  manfoul  out  of  their  beds,* 


272  .  The  HOLY  WAR. 
and  now  I  will  add,  they  wounded  them,  they 
mauled  them,  yea,  and  almolt  brained  many  of 
them  :  many,  did  I  fay  ?  yea,  moil  if  not  all  of 
them.  Mr.  Confcience  they  fo  wounded,  yea, 
Sad  "jjork  and  his  wounds  h  feftered,  that  he 
among  the  could  have  no  eafe  day  or  night,  but 
town/men.  lay  as  if  continually  upon  a  rack.  ;  (but 
that  Shaddai  rules  all,  certainly  they  had'ilain 
him  outright.)  My  Lord  Mayor  they  fo  abufed 
Satan  has  a  that  they  almoft  put  out  his  eyes  ; 
f  articular  and  had  not  my  Lord  Willbewill  got 
fpite  againfl  into  the  Caftle,they  intended  to  have 
a  fanttified  chopt  him  all  to  pieces  ;  for  they  did 
wilL  look  upon  him  (as  his  heart  now  flood) 

to  be  one  of  the  worft  that  was  in  manfoul  againtt 
Diabolus  and  his  crew.  And  indeed  he  hath 
fhewed  himfelf  a  man,  and  more  of  his  exploit* 
you  will  hear  of  afterwards. 

Now  a  man  might  have  walked  for  many  days 
together  in  manfoul  and  fcarce  have  ken  one  in 
the  Town  that  looked  like  a  religious  man.  Oh 
tj-i  j  the  fearful  (late  of  manfoul  now  !  Now 
&'  '  every  corner  fwarmed  with  outlandifti 
Doubters  ;  red  coats  and  black  coats  walked  the 
town  by  clutters,  and  filled  up  all  the  hoiifes 
The  J lit!  with  hideous  noifes,  vain  fongs,  lying 
full  cf  idle  ftories,  and  blafphemous  language,  a- 
thoughts  gainit  Shaddai  and  his  Son.  Now  alfo 
andblaj-  thofe  Diabolonians  that  lurked  in  the 
fheuiies.  walls,  and  dens,  and  h^les,  that  were 
in  the  town  of  manfoul,  came  forth  and  fhewed 
themfelves  ;  yea,  walked  with  open  face  in  com- 
pany with  the  Doubters  that  were  in  manfoul  : 
yea,  they  had  more  boldnefs  now  to  walk  the 
■  ftrcets,  to  haunt  the  houfes,  and  to  mew  them- 
felves abroad,  than  had  any  of  the  honeft  inhabi- 
tants^ the  now  woefui  lown  of  manfoul. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  273 

But  Diabolus  and  his  outlandish  men  were  not 
at  peace  in  manfoul  ;  for  they  were  not  there  en- 
tertained as  were  the  captains  and  forces  of  Em- 
manuel ;  the  townfmen  did  brow-beat  them  what 
they  could  :  nor  did  they  partake  or  make  dt(- 
truchon  of  any  of  the  necefLries  of  manfoul  but 
that  which  they  feized  on  againft  the  townfmen's 
will  ;  what  they  could  they  hid  from  them,  and 
what  they  could  not  they  had  with  an  ill-will. 
They,  poor  hearts,had  rather  have  had  their  room 
than  their  company  ;  but  they  were  at  prefent 
their  captives,  and  their  captives  for  the  prefent 

Rom.  vii    they   werC   forced   r°  be*     Btlt   J  ***' 

they  difcountenanced  them  as   much  as 

they  were  able,  and  mewed  them  all   the  diflikc 
that  they  could. 

The  captains  alfo  from  the  Cattle  did  hold 
Mr.  Godly-  them  in  continual  play  with  their 
fear  is  made  flings,  to  the  chafing  and  freeting  of 
keeper  of  the  minds  of  the  enemies.  True, 
the  Cajl/e-  Diabolus  made  a  great  many  attempts 
gates.  to  have  broken  open  the  gates  of  the 

Cafile,  but  Mr.  Godly-fear  was  made  the  keeper 
of  that  ;  and  he  was  a  man  of  fuch  courage,  con- 
duct and  valour,  that  ir  was  in  vain,  as  lohg^as 
life  lailed  with  him,  to  think  to  do  that  wo 
tho'  moftly  defired  :  wherefore  ail  the  attempts 
that  Diabolus  made  againtf.  him  were  frtfitlefs  (I 
have  wifhed  fometimes  that  that  man  had  h:A  the 
whole  rule  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.) 

Well,  this  was  the  condition  of  the  Town  of 
The  town  manfoul  for  about  two  years  and  an 
tf  Mar, foul  half  3  the  body  of  the  Town  was  the 
the  feat  of  feat  of  war,  the  people  of  the  Town 
war.  were  driven  into  holes,    and  the  glory 

of  manfoul  was  laid  in  the  dull:  :   what  reit  then 
could  be  to   the  inhabitants,   what  peace  ^could 


274  The   hol  Y  WAR. 

man  foal  have,  and  what  fan  coald  fliine  apon  it  ? 
Had  die  enemy  lain  lb  long  withont  in  the  plain 
againll  the  Town,  it  had  been  enough  to  have  fa- 
mimed  them  ;  but  now  when  they  mail  be  within, 
when  the  Town  fhall  be  their  tent,  their  trench 
and  fort  againfl  the  Cafll-e  that  was  in  the  Town, 
when  the  Town  (hall  be  againfl  the  Town,  and 
fliall  ferve  to  be  a  defence  to  the  enemies  of  her 
ilrength  and  life  ;  I  fay, when  they  fhall  make  ufe 
of  the  forts  and  town-holds  to  fecure  themfelves 
in,  even  till  they  fhall   take,   fpoil,   and  demolifh 

*  He  art.  the  Oiftle,*  this  was  terrible  ;  and  yet 
this  was  now  the  flate  of  the  Town  of  manfoul. 

After  the  Town  of  manfoul  had  been  in  this  fad 
and  lamentable  condition  for  fo  long  a  time  as  I 
have  told  you, and  no  petitions  that  theyprefented 
their  Prince  with  (all  this  while)  could  prevail  ; 
the  inhabitants  of  the  Town, to  wit, the  elders  and 
chief  of  manfoul, gathered  together,and  after  fome 
time  fpent  in  condoling  their  miferable  flate,  and 
this  miferable  judgment  coming  upon  them,  they 
agreed  together  to  draw  up  yet  another  petition, 
and  to  fend  it  away  to  Emmanuel  for  relief.  But 
Mr.  Godly-fear  flood  up,  and  anfwered,  That  he 
Mr.  God/\-  knew  that  his  Lord  the  Prince  never 
fear's  ad-  did, nor  ever  would,  receive  a  peti- 
vke  about  tion  for  thefe  matters  from  the  hand  of 
drawing  up  any  whoever,  unlefs  the   Lord  Secre- 

*  petition  tary's  hand  was  to  it  ;  and  this,  qucjth 
to  the  he,  is  the  reafen  that  you  prevailed 
Prince.  not  all  this  while.  Then  they  laid, 
they  would  draw  up  one,  and  get  the  Lord  Se- 
cretary's had  unto  it.  But  Mr.  Godlyfear  an- 
fwered again,  That  he  knew  alfo  that  the  Lord 
Secretary  would  not  fet  his  hand  to  any  petition 
that  himfelf  had  not  an  hand  in  compofing  and 
drawing  up  ;     and  beildes,   faid  he,  the  Prince 


The  HOLY    WAR.  17$ 

doth  know  my  Lord  Secretary's  hand  from  all 
the  hands  in  the  world;  wherefore  he  cannot  be 
deceived  by  any  pretence  whatever:  wherefore  my 
advice  is,  chat  you  go  to  my  Lord,  and  implore 
him  to  lend  you  his  aid.  (Now  he  did  yet  abide 
in  the  Caflle,  where  all  the  Captains  and  men  at 
arms  were.) 

So  they  heartily  thanked  Mr.  Godly-fear,  took 
his  counfel,  and  did  as  he  had  bidden  them  ;  fo 
they  went  and  came  to  my  Lord,  and  made  known 
the  caufe  of  their  coming  to  him,  to  wit,  That, 
flnce  manfoul  was  in  fo  deplorable  a  condition, his 
Highnefs  would  be  pleafed  to  undertake  to  draw 
up  a  petition  for  them  to  Emmanuel,  the  Son  of 
the  mighty  Shaddai,  and  to  their  King  and  his 
Father,  by  him. 

Then  laid  the  Secretary  to  them,  "What  peti- 
The  Secre-  tion  is  it  that  you  would  have  mc 
tary  em-  draw  up  for  you  ?"  but  they  faid, 
f  toyed  to  "Our  Lord  knows  bell  the  flate  and 
draw  vp  a  condition  of  the  Town  of  manfoul, 
petition  for  and  how  we  are  backflidden  and  de- 
ManfauL  generated  from  [he  Prince  ;  thou  alfo 
knoweit.  who  is  come  up  to  war  againlt  us,  and 
how  manfoul  is  now  the  feat  of  war.  My  Lord 
knows,  moreover,  what  barbarous  ufages  our  men, 
women,  and  children,  have  fufTered  at  their  hands, 
and  how  our  home-bred  Diabolonians  do  walk' 
now  with  more  boldnefs  than  dare  the  townfmen 
in  the  ftreets  of  manfoul.  Let  our  Lord,  there- 
fore, according  to  the  wifdom  of  God  that  is  in 
him,  draw  up  a  petition  for  his  poor  fervams  to 
our  Prince  Emmanuel."  "Well,"  laid  the  Lord 
Secretary,  "I  will  draw  up  a  petition  for  you, 
and  will  alfo  fet  my  hand  thereto."  Then  faid 
they,  "But  when  mail  we  call  for  it  at  the  hand 
of  the  Lord  :"  but  he  anfwered,  "Yourfdves  muft 


i76  The   HOLY    WAR. 

be  prefent  at  the  doing  of  it  ;  yea,  you  mufl:  put 
your  detires  to  it.  True,  the  hand  and  pen  ihall 
be  mine,  but  the  ink  and  paper  muft  be  your's, 
elfe  how  can  you  fay  it  is  your  petition  p.  Nor 
have  I  need  to  petition  for  niyfelf,  becaufe  I  have 
not  offended." 

He  alio  added  as  followeth  :  "No  petition  goes 
from  me  in  my  name  to  the  Prince,  and  fo  to  his 
Fatherby  him,but  when  the  people  that  are  chiefly 
concerned  therein  do  join  heart  and  foul  in  the 
matter  ;  for  that  muft  be  inferted  therein." 

So  they  heartily  did  agree  with  the  fentence  of 
The  peti-  the  Lord,  and  a  petition  was  forthwith 
t'ton  drawn  drawn  up  for  them.  But  now,  who 
up  and fent  mould  carry  it  ?  that  was  the  next. 
to  Emma-  But  the  Secretary  advifed  that  Cap- 
nu el by Cap-  tain  Credence  mould  carry  it,  for  he 
tainCre-  was  a  well  fpcken  man.  They  there- 
dence.  fore  called  for  him,    and  propounded 

to  him  the  bufinefs.  "Well,"  laid  the  Captain, "I 
gladly  accept  of  the  motion  ;  and,  tho'  I  am  lame, 
I  will  do  this  bufinefs  for  you  with  as  much  fpeed, 
and  as  well  as  1  can." 

The  contents  of  the  petition  were  to  this  effccl  : 

"O  our  Lord,  and  Sovereign  Prince  Emmanuel, 
The  con-  the  potent,  the  long-fuffering  Prince, 
tents  of  grace  is  poured  into  thy  lips,  and  to 
their  peti-  thee  belongs  mercy  and  forgivenefs, 
t'ton.  though  we  have  rebelled  againll  thee. 

We  who  are  no  more  worthy  to  be  called  thy 
manfoui,  nor  yet  fit  to  partake  of  common  benefits, 
do  befeech  thee,  and  thy  Father  by  thee,  to  do 
away  our  tranfgreflions.  We  confefs  .that  thou 
mighteft  caft  us  away  for  them,  but  do  it  not  for 
thy  name's  fake  ;  let  the  Lord  rather  take  an  op- 
portunity, at  our  miferable  condition,  to  iet  out  his 
bowels  and  companion  to  us.     We  are   compafled 


The    HOLY   WAR.  277 

on  every  fide  ;  Lord, our  own  backflidings  reprove 
us,  the  Diabolonians  within  our  Town  fright  us, 
and  the  army  of  the  angel  of  the  bottomleis  pic 
dittrefs  us.  Thy  grace  can  be  our  falvation,  and 
whither  to  go  but  to  thee  we  know  not. 

"Furthermore,  O  gracious  Prince,  we  have 
weakened  out  captains,  and  they  are  difcouraged, 
Tick, and  of  late  fome  of  them  grievoufly  worifed, 
and  beaten  out  of  the  field  by  the  power  and  force 
of  the  tyrant  5  yea,  even  thofe  of  our  captains,  in 
whofe  valour  we  did  formerly  ufe  to  put  mod  of 
our  confidence,  they  are  as  wounded  men.  Befides, 
Lord,  our  enemies  are  lively,  and  they  are  itrong, 
they  vaunt  and  boaft  themfelves,  and  do  threaten 
to  part  us  among  themfelves  for  a  booty.  They 
are  fallen  alfo  upon  us,  Lord,  with  many  thoufand 
Doubters,fuch  as  with  whom  we  cannot  tell  what 
to  do  ;  they  are  all  grim-looked  and  unmerciful 
ones,  and  they  bid  defiance  to  us  and  thee. 

"Our  wifdom  is  gone,  our  power  is  gone,  be- 
caufe  thou  art  departed  from  us  ;  nor  have  we  what 
we  may  call  ours  but  fin,  fhame,  and  confufion  of 
face  for  fin.  Take  pity  upon  us,  OLord,  take  pi- 
ty upon  us,  thy  miferable  Town  of  manfoul,  and 
lave  us  out  of  the  hands  of  our  enemies.    Amen." 

This  petition,  as  was  touched  afore, was  handed 
by  the  Lord  Secretary,  and  carried  to  the  Court 
by  the  brave  and  mod  flout  Captain  Credence. 
Now  he  carried  it  out  at  Mouth-gate,  for  that,  as 
I  laid,  was' the  fally-port  of  the  Town  ;  and  he 
went  and  came  to  Emmanuel  with  it-  Now,  how 
it  came  out  I  do  not  know  ;  but  for  certain  it  did, 
and  that  fo  far  as  to  reach  the  ears  of  Diabo. 
Thus  I  conclude,  becaufe  that  the  tyrant  had  it 
Snfan  can-  prefently  by  the  end,  and  charged  the 
mt  abide  Town  of  manfoul  with  it,  faying 
frayer.  "Thou  rebellious  and  ir.ubborn-hear> 
Aa 


278  The    HOLY    WAR. 

ed  manfoul,  I  will  mike  thee  to  leave  off  petition- 
ing. Art  thou  yet  for  petitioning  ?  I  will  make 
thee  to  leave  off."  Yea,  he  alfo  knew  who  the 
meffenger  was  that  carried  the  petition  to  the 
Prince,  and  it  made  him  both  to  fear  and  rage. 

Wherefore  he  commanded  that  his  drum  mould  be 
beat  again, a  thing  that  manfoul  could  not  abide  to 
hear  ;  but, when  Diabolus  will  have  his  drumbeat, 
manfoul  mult  abide  the  noife.  Well, the  drum  was 
.     it, and  theDiabolonians  were  gathered  together. 

Then  faid  Diabolus,  "O  ye  (tout  Diabolonians, 
be  it  known  unto  you,  that  there  is  a  treachery 
hatched  againit  us  in  the  rebellious  Town  of  man- 
foul ;  for  albeit  the  Town  is  in  our  poffeiHon,  as 
you  fee,  yet  thefe  miferable  manfoulians  have  at- 
tempted to  dare,and  have  been  fo  hardy  as  to  fend 
to  the  Court  to  Emmanuel  for  help.  This  I  give 
Poor  Man-  you  to  underfland,  that  ye  may  yet 
fouL  know  how  to  carry  it  to  the  wretched 

Tuwn  of  manfoul.  Wherefore,  O  my  trufty  Dia- 
bolonians, I  command  that  yet  more  and  more  ye 
diiirefsthis  Town  of  manfoul, and  vex  it  with  your 
wiles  ;  raviih  their  women,  deflour  their  virgins, 

y  their  children,  brain  their  ancients,  fire  their 
Town,  and  what  other  mifchief  you  can  ;  and  let 
this  be  the  reward  of  the  manfoulians  from  me 
for  their  defperate  rebellions  againll  me." 

This,  you  fee,  was  the  charge  ;  but  fomething 

p.t  in  betwixt  that  and  execution  ;  for  as  yet 
there  was  but  little  more  done  than  to  rage. 

Moreover,  when  Diabolus  had  done  thus,  he 
went  the  next  way  up  to  the  Caitle-gates,and  de- 

nded  that,  upon  pain  of  death,  the  gates  mould 
be  opened  to  him, and  that  entrance  fhould  be  giv- 
en him,  and  hismen  that  followed  after.  To  whom 
Mr.  Godly-fear  replied.' for  he  it  was  that  had  the 
charge  of  chat  gate)  "That  the  g:ue  fhould  not  be 


The    HOLY    WAR.  279 

opened  unto  him,  nor  to  the  men  that  followed 
after  him."  He  faid,  moreover,  ''That  manfoul, 
when  ihe  had  fpffered  a  while,  mould  be  mack 
perfect,  ftrengflfbened,  and  fettled/' 

Then  faid  Diabolus",  "Deliver  me  then  the  men 
Satan  can-  that  have  petitioned  againlt  me,  efpe- 
noi  abide  daily  Captain  Credence  that  carried 
faith.  it  to  your  Prince  ;  deliver  that  varlet 

into  my  hands,  and  I  will  depart  from  the  Town." 

Then  up  ilarcs  a  Diaholonian,  whofe  name  was 

n/T  rr  /•  Mr.  Fooling,  and  faid,  "My  Lord 
Mr.  Fooling;.     ,,,       .        bl '.       .    .    , '         J, 

*   onereth  you  tair  :  it  is  better  for  you 

that  one  man  perilh  than  that  your  whole  man- 
foul  mould  be  undone." 

But  Mr.  Godly-fear  made  him  this  replication  ; 

"How long  will  manfoul  he  kept  out  of  the  dun- 
geon when  ihe  hath  given  up  her  faith  to  Diabo- 
J  lis  ?  As  good  lofe  the  Town  as  lofe  Capt.  Cre- 
dence; for,if  one  be  gone, the  other  mult  follow  :'' 
But  to  that  Mr,  Fooling  faid  nothing. 
-  Then  did  my  Lord  Mayor  reply,  and  faid,  fcO 
thou  devouring  tyrant,  be  it  known  unto  thee, 
we  fliall  hearken  to  none  of  thy  words  ;  we  are 
refolved  to  refill  t^hee,  as  long  asaCapcain,  a  man, 
a  jling,and  aitone  to  throw  at  thec,ihall  be  found 
in  the  Town  of  manfoul."  ButDiabolus  anfwered, 
Diabolus  "Do  you  hope,  do  you  wait,  do  you 
rages.  look  for  help  and  deliverance  ?  you 
have  lent  to  Emmanuel,  but  your  wickednefs  flicks 
too  clofe  in  your  fkirts  to  let  innocent  prayers 
come  out  of  your  lips.  Think  you  that  you  lhall 
be  prevailers  and  profper  in  this  defign  ?  you  will 
fail  in  your  wifli,  you  will  fail  in  your  attempts  ; 
for  it  is  not  only  I,  but  your  Emmanuel  is  againir 
you  :  yea,  it  is  he  that  hath  fent  me  againft  3^011 
to  fubdue  you  ;  for  what  then  do  you  hope,  or  by 
what  means  will  you  efcape  r" 
A  a  2 


23o  The   HOLY   WAR. 

Then  faid  the  Lord  Mayor,  "We  have  finned 
The  Lord  indeed,  but  that  lhall  be  no  help  to 
Mayor's  thee  ;  for  our  Emmanuel  hath  faid  it, 
fpeecbt  at  and  that  in  great  faithfulnefs,  "And 
the  time  of  him  that  comerh  to  me,  I  will  in  no- 
retum  of  wife  caft  out.  He  hath  alfo  told  ns, 
Captain  O  our  enemy,  "that  all  manner  of  fin 
■Credence,  and  blafphemy  lhall  be  forgiven  to  the 
Ions  of  men  :"  therefore  we  dare  not  defpair,  but 
will  look  for,  wait  for,  and  hope  for,  deliverance 
ftill." 

Now  by  this  timeCaptain  Credence  was  return- 
ed and  come  from  the  Court  from  Emmanuel  to 
the  Caftle  of  manfoul,  and  he  returned  to  them 
with  a  pacquet.  So  my  Lord  Mayor,  hearing  that 
Captain  Credence  was  come,  withdrew  himfelf 
from  the  noife  of  the  roaring  of  the  tyrant,  and 
left  him  to  yell  at  the  wall  oftheTown,or  again  it 
the  gates  of  the  Caftle.  So  he  came  up  to  the 
Captain's  lodgings,  and  faluted  him  ;  he  afked 
him  of  his  welfare,  and  what  was  the  belt  newsac 
Court  ?  but,  when  he  afked  Captain  Credence 
that  the  water  flood  in  his  eyes.  Then,  laid  the 
Captain,  "Cheer  up,  my  Lord,  for  all  will  be  well 
in  time."  And  with  that  he  fir  ft  produced  his 
pacquet,  and  laid  it  by  ;  but  that  the  Lord  Mayor 
and  the  relt  of  theCaptains  took  for  a  fign  of  good 
j4 fign  of  tidings.  Now,  a  fealbn  of  grace  being 
goodnefs.  come,  he  fent  for  all  the  Captains  and 
eiders  of  the  Town,  that  were  here  and  there  in 
their  lodgings  in  the  C.iftle,and  upon  their  guard, 
to  let  them  know  that  Captain  Credence  was  re- 
turned from  the  Court,  and  that  he  had  fomething 
in  general,  and  fomething  in  fpecial,  to  communi- 
cate to  them.  So  they  all  came  up  to  him,  and 
faluted  him, and  afked  him  concerning  hisjourney, 
and  what  was  the  belt  news  at  the  Court  ?  And  be 


The    HOLY    W  A  R.  281 

anfwered  them  as.  he  had  done  the  Lord  Mayor 
before,  that  all  would  be  well  at  Lift.  Now, when 
The  pacquet  the  Captain  had  faluted  them,  he  0- 
opened  pened   his    pacquet,    and    thence    did 

draw  out  his  feveral  notes  for  thofe  he  had  lent 
for.  And  the  firft  note  was  for  my  Lord  Mayor, 
wherein  was  figniried, 

"  That  the  Prince  Emmanuel  had  taken  it  well 
A  note  for  that  my  Lord  Mayor  had  been  fo  true 
my  Lord  and  trufty  in  his  office,  and  the  great 
Mayor,  concern  that  lay  upon  him  for  the  Town 
and  people  of  manfoul.  Alio  he  bid  him  to  know, 
that  he  took  it  well  that  he  had  been  fo  bold  for 
his  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  had  engaged  fo  faith- 
fully in  his  caule  againlt  Diabolus.  He  alfo  fig- 
nifled  at  the  dole  of  his  letter  that  he  ihould 
ihortly  receive  his  reward." 

The  fecond  note  that  came  out  was  for  the 
A  note  for  noble  Lord  Willbewill  wherein  there 
the  Lord  was  ilgniried,  "That  his  Prince  Em- 
tf://bezv!//.manuQ\  did  well  underftand  how  va- 
liant and  courageous  he  had  been  for  the  honor 
cf  his  Lord,  now  in  his  abfence,  and  when  his 
name  was  under  contempt  by  Diabolus.  There 
was  iignined  alfo,  that  his  Prince  had  taken  it 
well  that  he  had  been  fo  faithful  to  the  Town  of 
manfoul, in  his  keeping  of  fo  ilricl  a  hand  and  eye 
over,  and  fo  lhict  a  rein  upon  the  neck  of,  the 
Diabolonians  that  did  llill  lye  lurking  in  their 
feveral  holes  in  the  famous  Town  ofrnanfotil. 

"  He  flgnified,  moreover,  how  that  he  under- 
ftood  that  my  Lord  had,  with  his  own  hand,  done 
great  execution  upon  fome  of  the  chief  of  the  re- 
bels there,  to  the  great  difcouragement  of  the  ad- 
verfe  party,and  to  the  good  example  cf  the  whole 
Town  of  manfoul  ;  and  that  ihortly  his  Lordihip 
ihould  have  his  reward." 
A  a  q 


222  The   HOLY     WAR. 

The  third  note  came  out  for  the  fubordinate 
A  note  for  Preacher,  wherein  was  llgnified, "That 
the  fubor-  his  Prince  took  it  well  from  him  that  he 
dinate  had  fo  honeilly  and  fo  faithfully  per- 
Preachsr.  formed  his  office,  and  executed  the 
truit  committed  to  him  by  his  Lord,  while  he  ex- 
horted, rebuked,  and  forewarned  man  foul,  according 
to  the  laws  of  the  Town.  He  fignified,  moreover, 
that  he  took  well  at  his  hand  that  he  called  to 
falling  to  lackcloth  and  allies,  when  manfonl  was 
under  her  revolt ;  alio  that  he  called  for  the  aid  of 
the  Capt. Boanerges, to  help  in  fo  weighty  a  work; 
and  that  fhortly  he  alfo  mould  receive  his  reward." 

The  fourth  note  came  out  for  Mr.  Godly-fear, 
A note  for  wherein  his  Lord  thus  fignified, "That 
Mr.  Godly-  his  Lordfhip  obferved  that  he  was  the 
fear  flrit  of  all  the  men  in  manfoul  that  de- 

tected Mr.  Carnal  Security,  as  the  only  one  that 
through  his  fubtilty  and  cunning  had  obtained  for 
Diabolus  a  defection  and  decay  of  goodnefs  in  the 
bleffed  Town  of  manfoul.  Moreover  his  Lordfhip 
pave  him  to  underitand,  that  he  it  ill  remembered 
his  tears  and  mourning  for  the  flat e  of  manfoul." 
'Tt  was  alio  obferved  by  the  fame  note,  "  That  his 
Lord  took  notice  of  his  detecting  of  this  Mr. Car- 
nal Security  at  his  own  table,  among  his  guefts,  in 
Ins  own  houfe,  and  that  in  the  midif.  of  his  jolli- 
ftefs,  even  while  he  was  feeking  to  perfect  his  vil- 
ianies  againft  the  Town  of  manfoul.  Emmanuel 
alfo  took  notice,  that  this  reverend  perfon,  Mr. 
Godly-fcir,  flood  ftoutly  to  it  at  the  gates  of  the 
C  a  file  againft  all  the  threats  and  attempts  of  the 
tyrant,  and  that  he  had  put  the  townfmen  in  a 
way  to  make  their  petition  to  their  Prince  fo  as 
that  he  might  accept  thereof,  and  as  that  they 
might  obtain  an  anfwer  of  peace  ;  and  that  there- 
fore, fhortly,  he  mould  receive  his  reward." 


The    HOLY    WAR.  283 

After  all  this,  there  was  yet  produced  a  note, 
Amlefor  which  was  written  to  the  whole  Town 
the  to wnof  of  manfoul,  whereby  they  perceived, 
ManfouL  "  That  their  Lord  took  notice  of  their 
fo  often  repeating  of  petitions  to  him,  and  that1 
rhey  mould  fee  more  of  the  fruits  of  fuch  their 
doings  in  time  to  come.  Their  Prince  did  alio 
theiein  tell  them,  That  he  took  it  well  that  their 
heart  and  mind,  now  at  Iait,abode  fixed  upon  him 
and  his  ways,  though  Diabolus  had  made  fuch  in- 
roads upon  them;  and  that  neither  flatteries  on  the 
one  hand/ nor -hardfhips  on  the  other,  could  make 
them  yield  to  fcrve  his  cruel  defigns.  "There  was 
alfo  inferred  at  the  bottom  of  this  note,  "That  his 
Lordfhip  had  left  the  Town  of  manfoul  in  the 
hands  of  the  Lord  Secretary,  and  under  the  con- 
duel  of  Captain  Credence,  faying,  Beware  that 
you  yet  yield  yourfelves  unto  their  governance, 
and  in  due  time  you  fliall  receive  your  reward." 

So,  after  ;he  brave  Capt.  Credence  had  deliver- 
Captain  ed  his  notes  to  thofe  to  whom  they  be- 
Credence  longed,  he  retired  himfelf  to  my  Lord 
retires  to  Secretary's  lodgings,  and  there  fpends 
the  Lord  time  in  converging  with  him  ;  for  they 
Secretary's  two  were  very  great  one  with  another, 
lodgings  :  and  did  indeed  know  more  how 
things  would  go  with  manfoul  than  did  all  the 
tovvnfmen  befldes.  The  Lord  Secretary  alfo  loved 
the  Capt.  Credence  dearly  ;  yea,  many  a  good  bit 
was  fent  him  from  my  Lord's  table  ;  alfo  he  might 
have  a  (hew  of  countenance  when  the  reft  of  man- 
foul  lay  under  the  clouds  ;  fo,  after  Tome  time  for 
converfe  was  fpent,  the  Captain  betook  himfelf  to 
his  chambers  to  red.  But  it  was  not  long  after 
but  my  Lord  did  fend  for  the  Captain  again  ;  fo 
the  Captain  came  to  him,  and  they  greeted  o'ne 
another  with  ufual  faluiations.       Then    laid  the 


284  The    HOLY    WAR. 

Captain  to  the  Lord  Secretary,  "What  hath  my 
Lord  to  fay  to  his  fervant  I"  So  the  Lord  Secre- 
tary took  him  and  had  him  afide  ;  and, after  a  fign 
or  two  of  more  favour,  he  faid,  "I  have  made  thee 
the  Lord  Lieutenant  over  all  the  forces  in  man- 
He  is  made  foul  ;  fo  that,  from  this  day  forward, 
Lord  Lieu-  all  men  in  manfoui  fhall  be  at  thy. 
tenant  over  word,  and  thou  (halt  be  he  that  fhall 
all  the  lead  in  and  that:  mall  lead  out  man- 
forces  in  loul  :  thou  ihalc  therefore  manage,  ac- 
ManfouL  cording  to  thy  place,  the  war  for  thy 
Prince,  and  for  the  Town  of  manfoui,  againft  the 
force  and  power  of  Diabolds  ;  and  at  thy  com- 
mand fhall  the  reft  of  the  captains  be." 

Now  the  townfmen  began  to  perceive  what  in- 

tereft  the  Captain  had,  both  with  the  Court  and 

alfo  with  the  Lord  Secretary  in  manfoui  ;  for  no 

man  before  could  fpeed  when  fent,  nor  bring  fuch 

good  news  from  Emmanuel  as  he..      Wherefore 

Jfhc  Town    what  do  they,  after  fome  lamentation 

.craves  to  be  that  they. made  no  more  ufe  of  him  in 

rr  tie     their  diftreiTes,  but  fend  by  their  fub- 

cQuduit  of    ordinate  Preacher  to  the  Lord  Secre- 

■GiiPidin        tary,  to  defire  him  that  all  that  ever 

Credence,    they  were  and  had  might  be  put  under 

rhe  government,  care,  cuftody,   and  conduct,  of 

Captain  Credence. 

So  their  Preacher  went  and  did  his  errand,  and 
received  this  anfwer  from  the  mouth  of  his  Lord, 
that  Captain  Credence  mould  be  the  great  doer 
in  A\  !.e  King's  army  againft  the  King's  enemies, 
a  id  lib  for  the  welfare  of  manfoui.  So  he  bowed 
to  ■<  ind,  and  thanked  his  Lordfhip,  and  re- 

-tin  j  j  Ids  news  to  the  townsfolk.  •  But  all 

tki'  was  rJone  with  all  imaginable  fecrecy,becaufe 
the  foes  hadyetgreat  ftrength  in  the  Town.   Bu~, 

To  return  to  our  (lory  again.     When  Dial: 


Th£    HOLY    WAR.  285- 

faw  himfelf  thus  boldly  confronted  by  the  Lord 
Mayor,  and  perceived  the  ftoutnefs  of  Mr.Godly- 
Dlabolus  fear,  he  fell  into  a  rage,  and  forthwith 
rages  called  a  council  of  war,  that  he  might 
be  revenged  on  manfonl.  So  all  the  princes  of  the 
pit  came  together,    and  old   Incredulity    on   the 

(bead  of  them,  with  all  the  captains  of  his  army  : 
fo  they  confult  what  to  do.  Now  the  effecT:  and 
concilium  of  the  council  that  day  was,  how  they 
might  take  the  Caftle,becaufe  they  could  not  con- 
clude themfelves  mailers  of  the  Town  fo  long  as 
that  was  in  the  poiTeflion  of  their  enemies.  So 
one  advifed  this  way,  and  another  advifed  that  : 
but,  when  they  could  not  agree  in  their  verdicl, 
Apol!yon,the  prefidentofthe  council, ftood  up,and 
thus  he  began  ;  "My  brotherhood,"  quoth  he, 
"I  have  two  things  to  propound  unto  you.;  and 
my  firfh  is  this,Let  us  withdraw  ourfelves  from  the 
Town  into  the  plain  again,  for  cur  pretence  here 
will  do  us  no  good,  becaufc  the  Gallic  is  yet  in 
our  enemies*  hands  ;  nor  is  it  poflihle  that  we 
mould  take  that  fo  long  as  fo  many  brave  captains 
are  in  it,  and  that  this  bold  fellow  Godly-fear  is 
made  keeper  of  the  gates  of  it. 

"Now,when  we  have  withdrawn  ourfelves  into 
the  plain, they  of  their  own  accord  will  be  glad  of 
ionic  little  eaic,and  it  may  be  of  their  own  accord 
they  again  may  begin  to  be  remits;  and  even  their 
fo  being  will  give  them  abigger  blow  than  we  c*n 
poffibly  give  them  ourfelves.  But,  if  that  mould 
Look  to  it  fail,  our  going  forth  of  the  Town  .may 
Manfonl  draw  the  captains  out  after  us  ;  and  yon 
know  what  it  cofl  them  whem  we  fought  them  in 
the  field  before.  Befldcs,  can  we  but  draw  then 
out  into  the  field,  we  may  lay  an  ambum  be'ri 
the  Town, which  mall;  when  they  are  come  forth 
abroad,  rufh  in  and  take  poiTeflion  pf  the  Caitle." 


236  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

But  Beelzebub  flood  up  and  replied,  faying,  '"Tis 
impofiible  to  draw  them  all  off  from  the  Caflle  ; 
fome,  you  may  be  fure,will  lye  there  to  keep  that: 
wherefore  it  will  be  in  vain  thus  to  at  tempi, wife  fe 
we  were  fare  that  they  will  come  out."  He  there- 
fore concluded,That  what  was  to  be  done  mr.il  be 
done  by  fome  other  means.  And  the  moil  likely 
means  that  the  greateil  of  their  heads  could  invent 
was  that  which  Apollyon  had  advife'd  to  before, to 
wit, to  get  the  townfmen  again  to  fin  ;  "For/Maid 
he,  "it  is  not  our  being  in  the  Town,  nor  in  the 
field, nor  our  fighting,uor  our  killing  of  their  men, 
that  can  make  us  the  maflers  of  manfoul  ;  for,  fo 
Look  to  it,  long  as  one  in  the  Town  is  able  to  life 
Manful,  up  his  ringer  againfl  us  Emmanuel  will 
take  their  parts  :  and  if  he  mail  take  their  parts, 
we  know  what  time  a-day  it  will  be  with  us. 
Where  fore,  for  my  part"  quoth  he,  "  here  is,  in 
.my  judgment,  no  way  to  bring  them  into  bondage 
to  us  like  inventing  a  way  to  make  them  fin.  Had 
2*Pet.'ri  18,  we,"  faid  he,  "left  all  our  Doubters 
19,  20,  21.  at  home,  we  had  done  as  well  as  we 
have  done  now,  unlefs  we  could  have  made  them 
the  mailers  and  governors  of  the  Caftle  ;  for 
Doubters  at  a  diflance  are  but  like  objections  re- 
felled  with  arguments.  Indeed,  can  we  but  get 
them  into  the  hold,  and  make  them  poiTefTors  of 
that,  the  day  will  be  our  own.  Let  us,  therefore 
withdraw  ourfelves  into  the  plain  (not  expecting 
that  the  captains  in  manfoul  ihould  follow  us  ;  but 
yet,  I  fay,  let  us  do  this)  and,  before  we  do  fo,let 
us  advife  again  with  our  trufty  Diabolonians  that 
are  yet  in  their  holds  of  manfoul,  and  fet  them  to 
work  to  betray  the  Town  to  us  ;  for  they  indeed 
muil  do  it, or  it  will  be  left  undone  forever."  By 
thefe  fayings  of  Beelzebub  (for  I  think  that  it 
was  he  that  gave  this  counfe!;the  whole  conclave 


The    HOLY    WAR.  287 

Look  to  it,  ~was  forced  to  be  of  his  opinion,  viz, 
Manfoul.  That  the  way  to  gee  the  Caftle  was 
to  get  the  Town  to  fin.  Then  they  fell  to  invent- 
ing by  what  means  they  might  do  this  thing. 

Then  Lucifer  flood  up,  and  faid  ;  "The  counfel 
of  Beelzebub  is  pertinent.  Now  the  way  to  bring 
this  to  pafs,  in  my  opinion,  is  this  :  Let  us  with- 
draw our  force  from  the  Town  of  manfoul,  let  us 
do  this,and  let  us  terrify  them  no  more,either  with 
fummons  or  threats, or  with  the  noifeof  our  drum, 
or  any  other  awakening  means  :  only  let  us  lye  in 
the  field  at  a  diftance,  and  be  as  if  we  regarded 
them  not  (for  frights,  I  fee,  do  but  awaken  them, 
and  make  them  more  Hand  to  their  arms.)  I  have 
alfoanotherltratagemin  my  head.  You  know  man- 
foul  is  a  market-town, and  a  Town  that  delights  in 
commerce  :  what,  therefore,  if  fome  of  our  Diabo- 
lonians  fhall  feign  themfelvesfar  country-men, and 
lhall  go  out  and  bring  into  the  market  of  manfoul 
fome  of  our  wares  to  fell?  and  whar  matter  at  what 
rates  they  fell  their  wares,  though  it  be  but  for 
half  the  worth  :  Now  let  thole  that  thus  fhall 
trade  in  their  market  be  thofe  that  are  witty  and 
true  to  us, and  I  will  lay  my  crown  to  pawn  it  will 
do.  There  are  two  that  are  come  to  my  thoughts 
already, that  I  think  will  be  arch  at  this  work, and 
they  are  Mr.  Penny- wife  Pound-fool ifh,  and  Mr. 
Get-i'the-hundred-and-Lofe-i'the-fhire  ;  nor  is  this 
man  with  the  long  name  at  ail  inferior  to  the  other. 
What  alio  if  you  join  with  themMr. Sweet-world, 
Look  to  it,  and  Mr.  Prefent-good  ?  they.arejjj^. 
Rev.  iii.io.  that  are  civil  and  cunning,  but*  . 
true  friends  and  helpers.  Let  thofe,  with  as  mSBW 
more,  engage  in  this  bufinefs  for  us  :  and  let  man- 
Nbui  be  taken  up  in  much  bufinefs,  and  let  them 
[grow  full  and  rich  ;  and  this  is  the  way  to  get 
Heart,  ground  of  them.     Remember  ye  nx>r,  th 


238  The  HOLY    WAR. 

thus  we  prevailed  upon  Laodicea,  and  how  many 
at  prefent  do  we  hold  in  this  fnare  ?  Now,  when 
they  begin  to  grow  full  they  will  forget  their  mi- 
fery  ;  and,  if  we  mall  not  affright  them,  they  may 
happen  to  fall  aileep,  and  lb  be  got  to  neglect  their 
town-watch,  their  cattle- watch,  as  well  as  their 
watch  at  the  gates. 

"Yea,  may  we  not -by  this  means  to  cumber 
manfoul  with  abundance,  that  they  mail  be  forced 
to- make  of  their  Cattle  a  warehoufe,  inftead  of  a 
garrifon  fortified  againfl  us,  and  a  receptacle  for 
men  of  war  I  Thus,  if  we  get  our  goods  and  com- 
modities thither,  I  reckon  the  Cattle  is  more  than 
half  ours.  Befides,  could  we  fo  order  it,  that 
that  mould  be  filled  with  luch  kind  of  wares,  then, 
if  we  made  a  fudden  aflaulr  upon  them,  it  would 
be  hard  for  the  Captains  to  take  fhelter  there. 
Do  you  not  know  that  of  the  Parable,  'The  de^ 
Luke  viii.  ceitfulnefs  of  riches  choke  the  word  ;" 
14.  8c  xxi.  and  again,  "when  the  heart  is  over- 
34*  35>  36.  charged  with  furfciting  and  drunken- 
nefs,  and  the  cares  of  this  life,  all  mifchiefs  come 
upon  them  unawares." 

"Furthermore,  my  lords,"  quoth  he,  "you  very 
well  know  that  it  is  not  eafy  for  a  people  to  be 
filled  with  oi\r  things,  and  not  to  have  fome  of 
out  Diabolonians  as  retainers  to  their  houfes  and 
fervices.  Where  is  amanfoulian  that  is  full  of 
this'world  that  has  not  for  his  fervants  and  wait- 
ingmen  Mr.  Profufe,  or  Mr.  Prodigality,  or  fome 

«Kofour  Diabolonian  gang,  as  Mr.  Voluptuous, 
Pragmatical, Mr.Oftentation;or  the  like?  Now, 
e  can  take  the  Cattle  of  manfoul, or  blow  it  up, 
or  make  it  unfit  for  a  garrifon  for  Emmanuel ;  and 
any  of  thefe  will  dor.  Yea,  thefe,  for  ought  I 
know,  may  do  it  for  us  fooner  than  an  army  of 
twenty  thoufand  mem    Wherefore,  to   end  as  I 


The    HOLY    WAR.  289 

Look  to  it,  began,  my  advice  is,  that  we  quietly 
Manfoul.  withdraw  ourfelves,  not  offering  any 
further  force  or  forcible  attempt  upon  the  Caftle, 
at  leafr.  at  tlris  time  j  and  let  us  let  on  foot  our 
new  project,  and  let  us  fee  if  that  will  not  make 
themdeitroy  themfelves." 

This  advice  was  highly  applauded  by  them  all, 
and  was  accounted  the  very  maiterpiece  of  Hell, 
to  wit,  to  choke  manfoul  with  a  fulnefs  of  this 
world,  and  to  fnrfeit  her  heart  with  the  good 
things  thereof.  But  fee  how  things  m,eet  together  : 
Juft  as  this  Diabolonian  council  was  broke  up 
Captain  Credence  received  a  letter  from  Emm-i- 
Ameffage  nuel,  the  contents  of  which  was  this, 
to  Capt.Cre-  "That  upon  the  third  day  he  would 
dence  from  meet  them  in  the  Fields  of  the  plains 
his  Prince,  about  manfoul."  Meet  me  in  the 
which  he  field  !"  quoth  the  Captain  ;  "What 
underfland-  meaneth  my  lord  by  this  ?  I  know  not 
eth  not,  what  he  meaneth  by  meeting  of  me  in 
the  field."  So  he  took  the  note  in  his  hand, and  did 
carry  it  to  my  Lord  Secretary,to  afk  his 'thoughts 
thereupon  (for  my  Lord  was  a  feer  in  all  matters 
concerning  the  King,  and  alfo  for  the  good  and 
comfort  of  manfoul.)  So  he  ihewed  my  Lord  the 
note,  and  deflred  his  opinion  thereof.  . "  For  my 
part,"  quoth  Captain  Credence,  "I  know  *K>t 
meaning  thereof."  So  my  Lord  did  take  and  read' 
ir,and  after  a  little  paufe,he  faid,  "  The  Diabdo- 
nians  have  had  againfl  manfoul  a  great  confulu- 
tion  to-day  ;  they  have, I  fay,  this  da}'  heeM 
The  riddle  triving  the  utter  ruin  of  the  " 
expounded  and  the  refult  of  their  counfel  i5; 
to  him.  manfoul  into  fuch  a  way,  which,  if 
taken,  will  furely  make  her  deftroy  herfclf.  / 
to  this  end  they  are  making  ready  for  their  a 
departure  out  of  the  Town,  intending,  to  beui 
13  b 


290  The    HOLY    WAR. 

rhemfelves  to  the  field  again,  and  there  to  lye  till 
they  fhall  fee  whether  this  their  project  will  take 
or  nor.  But  be  thou  ready  with  the  men  of  thy 
Lord  ;  for  on  the  third  day  they  will  be  in  the 
plain, there  to  fall  upon  the  Diabolonians  :  for  the 
Prince  will  by  that  time  be  in  the  rleld,yea,by  that 
it  is  break  of  day,  fun-riling,  or  before,  and  that 
with  a  mighty  force  agaiiiit  them.  So  he  fhall  be 
before  them,  and  thou  fhalt  be  behind  them,  and 
betwixt  you  both  their  army  fhall  be  deilroyed. 

When  Captain  Credence  heard  this,  away  goes 
he  to  the  reft  of  the  captains,  and  tells  them  what 
a  note  he  had  a  while  fince  received  from  the 
hand  of  Emmanuel.  "And,"  faid  he,  "that  which 
was  dark  therein  has  my  Lord  the  Lord  Secretary 
expounded  unto  me."  He  told  them,  moreover, 
what  by  himfelf  and  by  them  mult  be  done  to 
The  Cap-  anfwer  the  mind  of  their  word.  Then 
tains  are  were  the  captains  glad  ;  and  Captain 
glad  to       Credence  commanded  that  all  the  King's 

ar.  trumpeters  mould  afcend  to  the  bat- 
tlements of  the  Cattle,  and  there,  in  the  audience 
of  Diabolus,  and  of  the  whole  Town  of  manfoul, 
make  the  bed  mufic  that  heart  could  invent.  The 
Cumcus     trumpeters  then  did  as  they   were  com- 

■.jic        manded  ;  they  got  themfelves  up  to  the 

:ieby  top  of  the  Cattle,  and  thus  they  began 
the  i nun-  to  found.  Then  did  Diabolus  Hart,  and 
'friers'*      faid,  What  can  be  the  meaning  of  this  ? 

-V  neither  found  boot  and  faddle,  nor  horfe  and 

»nor   a  charge.    What    do    thefe   madmen 
that  yet  they  fhould  be  fo  merry  and  glad  ? 
anfwered  him  one  of  themfelves,    and  faid, 
This  is  for  joy    that  their  Prince  Emmanuel   is 
coming  to  relieve  the  Town   of  manfoul  ;    that 
ro  this  end  he  is  at  the  head  of  an  army,  and  that 
Is  relief  .is  near. 


The    HOLY    WAR.  291 

The  men  of  manfoul  alfo  were  greatly  concern- 
ed at  this  melodious  charm  of  the  trumpets  ;  they 
faid,  yea,  they  anfwered  one  another,  faying,This 
can  be  no  harm  to  us,  furely  this  can  be  no  harm 
to  us.  Then  faid  the  DiaboIonians,What  had  we 
Diabolus  belt  to  do  \  And  it  was  ahfwered,  Ic 
withdravjs  was  bell  to  quit  the  Town  ;  and  that, 
from  the  faid  one,  you  may  do  in  purfuance  of 
Town,  and  your  laft  counfel,  and  by  fo  doing  alfo 
-why.  be  better  able  to  give  the  enemy   bat- 

tle, mould  an  army  from  without  come  upon  us. 
So  on  the  feccnd  day  they  withdrew  themfelves 
from  manfoul,  and  abode  in  the  plains  without; 
but  they  encamped  themfelves  before  Eye-gate  in 
what  terrene  and  terrible  manner  they  could. 
The  reafon  why  they  would  not  abide  in  the 
Town  (belldes  the  reafons  that  were  debated  in 
their  late  conclave)  was,  for  that  they  were  not 
pofTefTed  of  the  flronghold,  and  becaufe,faid  they, 
we  mall  have  more  conveniency  to  fight,  and  alfo 
to  flee,  if  need  be,  when  we  are  encamped  in  the 
open  plains.  Befides,  the  Town  Would  have  been 
a  pit  for  them  rather  than  a  place  of  defence,  had 
the  Prince  come  up  and  inclofed  them  fail  there- 
in :  therefore  they  betook  themfelves  x§  the 
field, that  they  might  alfo  be  out  of  reach  of  their 
flings,  by  which  they  were  much  annoyed  all  the 
while  that  they  were  in  the  Town. 

Well,  the  time  that  the  captains  were  to  fail 
The  time  upon  the  Diabolonians  being  come,  they 
come  for  eagerly  prepared  themfelves  for  action. ; 
the  Cap-  for  Captain  Credence  had  told  the  cap- 
tainsto  tains  over  night  that  they  mould  meet 
fight  their  Prince  in  the  field  to-morrow. 
them.  This  therefore  made  them  yet  far  more 
defirous  to  be  engaging  the  enemy  :  for,"You  mall 
fee  the  Prince  in  the  field  to-morrow,'\vas  like  oil 
Bbs 


292  The   HOLY    WAR. 

to  flaming  fire;  for  of  a  long  time  they  had  been  at 
a  dritance  :  they  therefore  were,for  this,the  more 
earneft  and  defirous  of  the  work.  So,as  I  faid,  the 
hour  being  come,  Captain  Credence,with  the  reft 
of  the  men  of  war,  drew  out  their  forces  before  it 
were  day,  by  the  fallyport  of  the  Town  ;  and,be- 
They  drew  ing  all  ready,  Capr.  Credence  went  up 
out  into  to  the  head  of  the  army,  and  gave  to 
the  field  the  reft  of  the  captains  the  word,  and 
fo  they  to  their  under-officers  and  foldiers  ;  the 
~,  (  .word  was,  The  pword  of  Prince  Emma- 
'miel,  and  the  fit  eld  of  Captain  Credence  ; 
which  is,  in  the  manfoulian  tongue,  The  word  of 
God  and  Faith,  Then  the  captains  fell  on,  and 
began  roundly  to  front,  and  flank,  and  rear,  Dia- 
bolus'  camp.  ( 

Now  they  left  Captain  Experience  in  the  Town, 
becaufe  he  was  yet  ill  of  his  wounds,  which  the 
Diabolonians  had  given  him  in  the  laft  fight. 
Captain  But  when  he  perceived  that  the  cap- 
Experience  tains  were  at  it,  what  does  he,  but, 
will  fight  for  calling  for  his  cratches  with  hafte,gets 
his  Prints  up,  and  away  he  goes  to  the  battle, 
upon  his  faying,  "Shall  I  lye  here  when  my 
crutches.  brethren  are  in  the  fight,  and  when 
Emmanuel  the  Prince  will  mew  himfelf  in  the 
field  to  his  fervants  :"  But  when  the  enemy  faw 
the  man  come  with  his  crutches  they  were  daunt- 
ed yet  the  more  ;  for,  thought  they,  What  fpirit 
has  pofTefftd  thefe  Manfoulians,  that  they  fight 
us  upon  their  crutches  !  Well,  the  Captains,  as  I 
faid,  fell  on,  and  did  bravely  handle  their  wea- 
pons, ftill  crying  our,  and  fhouiing,  as  they  laid 
on  blows,  The  fword  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel \  and 
the  fn eld  of  Captain  Credence. 

Now,  when  Diabolusfaw  that  the  Captains  were 
come  our,  and  that  fo  valiantly  they  furrounded 


The     HOLY    WAR.  293 

his  men, he  concluded  that  for  theprefent  nothing 
from  them  was  to  be  looked  for  but  blows,  and 
the  dints  of  their  two-edp-ed  fwords. 

Wherefore  he  alio  falls  on  upon  the  Prince's 
The  battle  army  with  all  his  deadly  force  :  fo  the 
joined.  battle  was  joined.  Now,  who  was  it 
that  at  firft  Diabolusmet  within  the  fight  but  Capt. 
Credence  on  the  one  hand  and  the  Lord  Willbewill 
fifil/bezvill on  the  other  ?  Now  Willbewill's  blows 
engaged  were  like  the  blows  of  a  giant, for  that 
man  had  a  ftrung  arm  ;  and  he  fell  npon  the  Elec- 
tion-doubters, for  they  were  the  life-guard  of  Dia- 
bolu?,  and  he  kept  them  in  play  a  good  while, cut- 
ting  and  battering  fhrewdly.  Now,  when  Capt. 
Credence  Credence  law  my  Lord  engage,  he  did 
engaged.  Hourly  fall  on,  on  the  other  hand,  upon 
the  fame  company  alio  ;  io  they  put  them  to  great 
diforder.  Now  Capt.  Goodhope  had  engaged  the 
Goodhope  Vocation-doubters, and  they  were  fturdy 
engaged,  men  ;  but  the  Captain  was  a  valianc 
man.  Capr.  Experience  did  alio  lend  him  fome 
aid,  fo  he  made  the  Vocation-doubter^^  retreat. 
The  reft  of  the  armies  were  hotly  erMged,  and 
that  on  every  fide, and  the  Diaboloniaps  did  iigh: 
ftoutly.  Then  did  my  Lord  Secretary  command 
The  Lord  thfct  the  flings  front  the  Caftlc  mould 
Secretary  be  played, and  his  men  could  throw  ftones 
engaged,  at  an  hair's  breadth.  But,  after  a  while, 
thofe  that  were  made  to  flee  before  the  Captains 
of  the  Prince  did  begin  to  rally  again,  and  they 
came  up  ftoutly  upon  the  rear  of  the  Prince's  ar- 
my :  wherefore  the  Prince's  army  began  to  faint; 
The  battle  but  remembering  that  they  mould,  fee 
renewed,  the  face  of  their  Prince  by  and  by, they 
took  courage,  and  a  very  fierce  battle  was  fought. 

A  fierce  fioht    Then  lnouted  the  CaPtains>  %^> 
J         Jo       The  [word  of  the  Prince  Emniu 

Bb3 


294  The   HOLY    WAR. 

and  the 'flueld  of  Captain  Credence  ;  and  with  that 
Diabolus  gave  back,  thinking  that  more  aid  had 
been  come.  But  no  Emmanuel  as  yet  appeared. 
Moreover,  the  battle  did  hang  in  doubt  j  and 
The  battle  they  made  a  little  retreat  on  both 
hangs  in  fides.  Now,  in  the  time  of  refpite 
doubt,  and  Capt.  Credence  bravely  encouraged 
both  retreat,  his  men  to  {land  to  it ;  and  Diabolus 
did  the  like  as  well  as  he  could.  But  Captain 
Credence  made  a  brave  fpeech  to  his  foldiers,  the 
contents  whereof  here  follow  : 

"Gentlemen  foldiers,  and  my  brethren  in  this 
Captain  delign,  it  rejoiceth  me  much  to  fee  in 
Credence  the  field  for  our  Prince  this  day  fo  flouc 
makes  a  and  fo  valiant  an  army,  and  fuch  faith- 
fpeech  to  ful  lovers  of  manfoul.  You  have  hither- 
hisfo/diers.to,  as  becomes  you,  fhewn  yourfelves 
men  of  truth  and  courage  againfc  the  Diabolonian 
forces  ;  fo  that,  for  all  their  boaft,  they  have  not 
yet  caufe  much  to  vaunt  of  their  gettings.  Now, 
take  to  yourfelves  your  wonted  courage,and  mew 
yourfefv^pen  even  this  once  only  :  for,in  a  few 
minutes  ^pr  the  next  engagement  this  time,  you 
.  mall  fee  youwPrince  fhevv  himleif  in  the  field  ;  for 
we  muft  make  this  fecond  alTault  upon  this  tyrant 
Diabolus,  and  then  Emmanuel  comes." 

No  fooner  had  the  Captain  made  this  fpeech  to 
his  foldiers,  but  one  Mr.  Speedy  came  poll  to  the 
Captain  from  the  Prince,  to  tell  him  that  Emma- 
nuel was  at  hand.  This  news,  when  the  Captain 
had  received,  he  communicated  to  the  other  field- 
officers,and  they  again  to  their  foldiers  and  men  or. 
war.  Wherefore,  like  men  raifed  from  the  dead 
fo  the  Captains  and  their  men  arofe,made  up  to  the 
enemy,and  cried  as  before,  The  [word  of  the  Prince 
Emmanuel,  and  th*  Jin  eld  of  Captain  Credence. 

The  Diabolonians  alfo  beflirred  thcmfelves,and 


The    HOLY    WAR.  295- 

made  refinance  as  well  as  they  could  ;  but  in  rhis 
kit  engagement  the  Diabolon  ians  loit  their  courage, 
and  many  of  the  Doubters  fell  down  dead  10  the 
ground.  Now,  when  they  had  been  in  heat  of 
battle  about  an  hour  or  more,  Captain  Credence 
lift  up  his  eyes  and  faw,  and  behold  Emmanuel 
came  ;  and. he  came  with  colours  flying,  trumpets 
founding,  and  the  feet  of  his  men  i'carce  touched 
the  ground, they  hailed  with  fuch  celerity  towards 
the  Captains  that  were  engaged.  Then  did  Cre- 
dence wind  with  his  men  to  the  townward,  and 
IVhen  the  gave  to  Diabolus  the  field.  So' Emma- 
enemy  is  nuel  came  upon  him  on  the  one  fide, 
betwixt  and  the  enemy's  place  was  betwixt 
Cbrift  and  them  both  ;  then  again  they  fell  to  ic 
faith,  then  afrefh  :  and  now  it  was  but  a  little 
down  they  while  more  but  Emmanuel  and  Cap-lain 
*go  to  be  Credence  met,  ftill  trampling  down 
fire.         the  flain  as  they  came. 

But  when  the  Captains  faw  that  the  Prince  was 
come,  and  that  he  fell  on  the  Diabolonians  on  the 
other  fide,  and  that  Capt.  Credence  and  MfaHigh- 
nefs  had  got  therri.  up  betwixt  them,the}sj^)Uted, 
(they  fo  fhouted  that  the  ground  rent^gain)  fay- 
ing, The  fivord  of  Emmanuel,  and  the  fbi  eld  of  Cap- 
The  victory  tain  Credence.  Now,  when  Diabolus 
falls  to  Em-.fow  that  he  and  his  forces  were  fo 
manuel  and  hard  befet  by  the  Prince  and  his  prince- 
to  his  men,  ly  army,  what  docs  he  and  uie  lords 
who  flay  all.  of  the  Pit  that  were  with  him  buc 
make  their  efcape,  and  forfake  their  army,  and 
leave  them  to  fall  by  the  hand  of  Emmanuel,  and 
of  his  noble  Capt.  Credence.  So  they  fell  all  down 
fbin  before  them,before  the  Prince, and  before  his 
royal  army  ;  there  was  not  left  fo  much  as  one 
Doubter  alive  :  they  lay  fpread  upon  the  ground 
dead  men, as  one  would  fpread  dung  upon  the  land. 


296  The    HOLY    W  A  R. 

When  the  battle  was  overall  things  came  into 
order  in  the  camp  :  then  the  captains  and  elders  of 
man  foul  came  together  to  falute  Emmanuel  while 
So?ig  viii.  i.  without  the  Corporation  ;  fo  they  fa- 
Manfoul  luted  him, -and  welcomed  him,  and 
falute  the  that  with  a  thousand  welcomes,  for 
Prince  :  He  that  he  was  come  to  the  borders  o 
addreffes  manfoul  again.  So  he  fmiled  upon 
bimfelf  to  them, and  faid,  Peace  be  to  yju.  1  ht-n 
go  into  the  they  addreffedthtmielves  to  go  to  the 
Town.  Town  ;  they  went  then  to  go  up   to 

manfoul,  they,  the  Prince,  with  all  the  new  forces 
that  now  he  had  brought  with  him  to  the  war  : 
alfo  all  the  gates  of  the  Town  were  fet  open  for 
his  reception,  fo  glad  were  they  of  his  bleifed  re- 
turn. And  this  was  the  manner  and  order  of  this 
going  of  his  into  manfoul  : 

Firil  (as  I  faid)  All  the  gates  of  the  Town  were 
The  man-  fet  open,yea,the  garesof  the  Cattle  alfo; 
ner  of  his  the  elders  of  the  Town  of  manfoul  pla- 
£4/ff|  in.  ced  themfelves  at  the  gates  of  the  Town 
to  faltM^him  at  his  entrance  thither  :  and  fo  they- 
did  ;  fjpas  he  drew  near,  and  approached  toward 
the  gates,  i4iey  faid,  ''Lift  up  your  heads,  O  ye 
gates,  and  be  ye  lifted  up,  ye  everlaltin^  doors, 
and  the  King  of  glory  fliall  come  in."  And  they 
anfwered  again,  "Who  is  the  King  of  glory  r" 
And  they  made  return  to  themfelves,  "The  Lord 
ftrong  and  mighty,  the  Lord  mighty  in  battle. 
Lift  up  your  heads, O  ye  gates,  even  lift  them  up, 
ye  ever] ailing  doors."  &c. 

Secondly,  It  was  ordered  alfo  by  thofe  of  man- 
foul that,all  the  way  from  the  Town-gates  to  thofc 
of  the  Cattle,  his  blefTed  Majefty  mould  be  enter- 
tained with  the  Song,  by  them  that  had  belt  fkill 
in  mufic  in  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  then  did  the 
elders  and  the  reft  of  the  men  of  manfoul  anfwer 


The  HOLY    WAR.  297 

one  another  as  Emmanuel  entered  theTovvn,ti]lhe 
came  at  the  Cattle  gates,  with  longs  and  found  of 
trumpets,  faying,  "They  have  leen  thy  goings,  O 
God,  even  the  goings  of  my  God,  my  K:ng,in  the 
fanciuary.  So  the  lingers  went  before,  the  play- 
ers on  inltruments  followed  after,  and  among  them 
were  the  damfels  playing  on  timbrels." 

Thirdly,  Then  the  captains  (for  I  would  fpeak 
a  word  of  them)  they  in  their order,waited  on  the 
Prince  as  he  entered  into  the  gates  of  manfoul. 
Captain  Credence  went  before,  and  Capt.  Good- 
hope  with  him  ;  Captain  Charity  came  behind, 
with  other  of  his  companions  ;  and  Captain  Pati- 
ence followed  after  all  ;  and  the  reft  of  the  cap- 
tains, fome  on  the  right  hand, and  fome  on  the  left 
accompanied  Emmanuel  into  manfoul.  And  all  the 
while  the  colours  were  difplayed,  the  trumpets 
founded,  and  continual  moutings  were  among  the 
foldiers.  The  Prince  himfelf  rode  into  the  Town 
in  his  armour,  which  was  all  of  "beaten  gold,  and 
in  his  chariot,  the  pillars  whereof  were  (ilver,the 
.bottom  of  gold,  the  covering  of  it  was  of  purple; 
the  midft  thereof  being  paved  with  love  for  the 
daughters  of  the  Town  of  manfoul."   • 

Fourthly,  When  the  Prince  was  come  to  the 
entrance  of  manfoul  he  found  all  the  ftreets  ftrew- 
ed  with  lilies  and  flowers,  curioufly  decked  with 
boughs  and  branches  from  the  green  trees  that 
Good  and  flood  round  about  the  Town.  Every 
joyful  door  alfo  was  filled  with  perfons,  who 
thoughts,  had  adorned  every  one  their  fore  pare 
againft  their  houfe  with  fomething  of  variety  and 
fingular  excellency,  to  entertain  him  withal  as  he 
paffed  in  theflrcets  ;  they  alfo  themfelves, as  Emma- 
nuel parTed  by,  did  welcome  him  with  moms  and 
acclamations  of  joy,  faying,  "BlefTed  be  the  Prince 
that  cometh  in  the  name  of  his  Father  Shaddai." 


298  The     HOLY   '  WAR. 

Fifthly,  At  the  Caille-gates  the  elders  of  Man- 
foul,  to  wit,  The  Lord  Mayor,  the  Lord  Willbe- 
will,  the  fubordinate  Preacher,  Mr.  Knowledge, 
and  Mr.  Mind  :  with  others  of  the  gentry  cf  the 
place,  faluted  Emmanuel  again  ;  they  bowed  be- 
fore him,  they  kilTed  the  dull  of  his  feet,  they 
thanked,  they  bleffed,  they  praifed,  his  High- 
nefs  for  not  takino;  advantage  againil  them  for 
their  fins,  but  rather  had  pity  upon  them  in  their 
mifery,  and  returned  to  them  with  mercies,  and 
to  build  up  their  manfoul  for  ever,  ^jfrhus  was  he 
had  up  ftraightway  to  the  Caftle  ;  for  that  was 
the  royal  palace, and  the  place  where  his  Honour 
was  to  dwell  ;  the  which  was  ready  prepared  for 
his  Highnefs  by  the  prefence  of  the  Lord  Secre- 
tary, and  the  work  of  Captain  Credence.  So  he 
entered  in. 

Sixthly,.  Then  the  people  Ihd  commonalty  of 
the  Town  of  manfoul  came  to  himintothe  Cattle  to 
mourn  and  to  weep,  and  to  lament  for  their  wick- 
ednefs,  by  which  they  had  forced  him  out  of  the 
Town.  So  they,  when  they  were  come,  bowed 
themfelves  to  the  ground  feven  times  ;  they  alfo 
wept,  they  wept  aloud,  and  afked  forgivnefs.of 
the  Prince,  and  prayed  that  he  would  again,  as  of 
old,  confirm  his  love  to  manfoul. 

To  which  the  great  Prince  replied, "Weep  nor, 
bu:  go  your  way,eat  the  fat, and  drink  the  fweet, 
and  fend  portions  to  them  for  whom  nought  is 
prepared  ;  for  the  joy  of  your  Lord  is  your 
ltrength.  I  am  returned  to  manfoul  with  mercies, 
and  my  name  mall  be  fee  up,  exalted,  and  magni- 
fied, by  it."  He  alfo  took  thefe  inhabitants  and 
kilTed  them,  and  laid  them  in  his  bofom. 
The  holy  Moreover,    he  gave   to  the  elders 

conceptions     of  manfoul,  and  to  each  town-officer, 
•f  Manfoul.     a  chain  of  gold,    andafignet.~     He 


The    HOLY   WAR.  299 

alfo  fent  to  their  wives  ear-rings  and  jewels,  and 
Young  and  bracelets,  and  other  things.  He  like- 
tender  holy  wife  bellowed  upon  the  true-born 
thoughts.  children  of  manfbul  many  precious 
things. 

When  Emmanuel  the  Prince  had  done  all  thefe 

things  for  the  famous  Town  of  manfouJ,    then  he 

,.         faid  unto  them,  "  Fir  ft   walh  your  gar- 

.iX.   .  meinSj  t}ien  pUt   on   y0Ur   ornaments, 

and  then  come  to  me  into  the  Caftle  of  manfoul." 

r7  ,  ...  So  they  went  to  the  fountain  that 
jCeca.XUUl.  *,        r  c       t     j    ?  j     t        r 

%as  let   open    for  Jndah    and  Jcrula- 

lem  to  vvafh  in  ;  and  there  they  wafhed,and  there 

i?^i;.vii.i4,  they  made  their  garments  white,  and 

15.  came  again   to  the  Prince  into   the 

Caftle,  and  thus  they  flood  before  him. 

And  now  there  was  mullc  and  dancing  through- 
out the  whole  town  of  manfoul,  and  that  becaufe 
their  Prince  had  again  granted  to  them  his  pre- 
fence,  and  the  light  of  his  countenance  ;  the  bells 
alfo  did  ring,  and  the  fun  Ihone  comfortably  upon 
them  for  a  great  while  together. 

The  Town  of  manfoul  did  alfo  now  more  thorough- 
ly feek  the  deft  ruction  and  ruin  of  all  remaining 
Diabolonians  that  abode  in  the  walls,  and  in  the 
dens  that  they  had  in  the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  for 
there  were  of  them  that  had  to  this  day  efcaped 
with  life  and  limb  from  the  hand  of  their  fuppref- 
fors  in  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul. 

But  my  Lord  Willbewill  was  a  greater  terror 
IVillbewlll  to  them  now  than  ever  he  had  been 
more  a  ter-  before  ;  forafmuch  as  his  heart  was 
ror  to  the  yet  more  fully  bent  to  feek,  contrive, 
Diabolo-  and  purfue  them  to  the  death  ;  he 
mans  now  purfued  them  night  and  day,  and  did 
than  ever,  put  them  now  to  fore  diftrefs,  as  will 
afterwards  appear. 


300  The    HOLY   WAR, 

After  things  were  thus  far  put  into  order  in  the 
famous  town  of  manfoul,  care  was  taken,  and  or- 
der given  by  the  blefled  Prince  Emmanuel,  that 
the  townfmen  mould,  without  further  delay,  ap- 
Orders  given  point  fome  to  go  forth  into  the  plain 
out  to  bury  to  bury  the  dead  that  were  there,the 
the  dead.  dead  that  fell  by  the  fword  of  Emma- 
nuel, and  by  the  fhield  of  the  Captain  Credence  ; 
left  the  fumes  and  ill  favours  that  would  arife  from 
them  might  infect  the  air,  and  fo  annoy  the  fa- 
mous Town  of  manfoul.  This,  alfo,  was  a  reafon 
of  this  order,  viz.  that,  as  much  as  in  manfoul 
lay,  they  might  cut  off  the  name,  and  being,  and 
remembrance,  of  thofe  enemies  from  the  thought 
of  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul  and  its  inhabitants. 
So  order  was  given  out  by  the  Lord  Mayor, 
that  wife  and  trufty  friend  of  the  Town  of  man- 
foul, that  perfons  mould  he  employed  about  this 
neceflary  bufinefs  ;  and  Mr.  Godly-fear  and  one 
Mr.  Upright  were  to  be  overfeers  about  this  mat- 
ter. So  perfons  were  put  under  them  to  work  in 
the  fields,  and  to  bury  the  flain  that  Jay  dead  in 
the  plains  :  and  thefe  were  their  places  of  employ- 
ment ;  fome  were  to  make  the  graves,  fome  to 
bury  the  dead,  and  fome  were  to  go  to  and  fro  in 
the  plains,  and  alfo  round  about  the  borders  of 
manfoul,  to  fee  if  a  fkull,  or  a  bone,  or  a  piece  of 
a  bone,  of  a  Doubter  was  yet  to  be  found  above 
ground  any  where  near  the  Corporation  ;  and,  if 
any  were  found,  it  was  ordered  that  the  fearchers 
that  fearched  mould  {ti  up  a  mark  thereby,  and^ 
a  fign,that  thofethat  wereappointed  to  bury  them 
might  find  it,  and  bury  it  out  of  fight,  that  the 
name  and  remembrance  of  a  Diabolonian  Doubter 
might  be  blotted  out  from  under  heaven,  and  that 
the  children,  and  they  that  were  to  be  born  in 
manfoul,  might  not  know   (if  poflible)   what   a 


The   H  OL  Y    WAR.  301 

Not  ajkull  fkull,  what  a  bone,  or  a  piece  of  a 
or  a  bone,  bone,  of  a  Doubter  was.  So  the  bu- 
aftece  of  a  riers,  and  thofe  that  were  appointed 
bone,  of  a  for  that  purpofe,  did  as  they  were 
Doubter  to  commanded  ;  they  buried  the  Doubt- 
be  left  un-  ers,  and  all  the  fkulls  and  bones,  and 
buried,  pieces  of  bones,of  Doubters,  wherever 
they  found  them,  and  fo  they  cleanfed  the  plains. 
Now  alfo  Mr.  Godfpeace  took  up  his  commiffion,, 
and  acted  again  as  in  former  days. 

Thus  they  buried  in  the  plains  about  manfoul 
the  Election-doubters,  the  Vocation-doubters,  the 
Grace-doubters,  the  Perfeverance-doubters,  the 
Refurrection-doubters,  the  Salvation-doubters,and 
the  Glory-doubters  ;  whofe  captains  were  Capt. 
Hage,Capt.  Cruel,  Captain  Damnation,  Capt.  In- 
fatiable,  Captain  Brimftone,  Captain  Torment, 
Captain  No-eafe,  Captain  Sepulchre,  and  Captain 
Pafthope  ;  and  old  Incredulity  was  under  Diabolus 
their  general.  There  were  alfo  thefe  feven  heads 
of  their  army, and  they  were  the  Lord  Beelzebub, 
the  Lord  Lucifer,  the  Lord  Legion,  the  Lord  A- 
pollyon,  the  Lord  Python,  the  Lord  Cerberus, 
and  the  Lord  Belial.  But  the  princes  and  the 
captains,  with  old  Incredulity  their  general,  did 
all  of  them  make  their  efcape  ;  fo  their  men  fell 
down  flain  by  the  power  of  the  Prince's  forces, 
and  by  the  hands  of  the  men  of  the  Town  ofman- 
foul.  They  alfo  were  buried, as  is  before  related, 
to  the  exceeding  great  joy  of  the  now  famous  Town 
of  manfoul.  They  that  buried  them  buried  alfo 
Their  aryns  with  them  their  arms,  which  were 
and  armour  cruel  inftruments  of  death  ;  (their 
buried  with  weapons  were  arrows,  darts,  mauls, 
them,  iirebrands.andthe  like  ;)  they  buried 

alfo  their  armour,  their  colours,  banners, with  the 
flandard  of  Diabolus,  and  what  elfe  foever  they 
Cc 


^02  The  HOLY    W  A  R. 

could  find  that  did  but  fmell  of  a  Diabolonian 
Doubter. 

Now,  when  the  tyrant  was  arrived  at  Hell-gate- 
hill,  with  his  old  friend  Incredulity,  they  imme- 
diately defcended  the  Den  ;  and  having  there, 
with  their  fellows,for  a  while  condoled  their  mis- 
fortune, and  great  lofs  that  they  fuflained  againft 
the  Town  of  manfoul,  they  fell  at  length  into  a 
paflion,  and  revenged  they  would  be  for  the  lofs 
that  they  had  fuftained  before  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  :  wherefore  they  prefently  call  a  council  : 
The  tyrant  contrive  what  yet  further  was  to  be 
refohes  to  done  againft  the  famous  Town  of  man- 
have  yet  foul ;  for  their  yawning  paunches  could 
a  bout  ivith  not  wait  to  fee  the  refuit  of  their  Lord 
Manfoul.  Lucifer's  and  their  Lord  Apollyon's 
counfel  that  they  had  given  before  ;  (for  their 
•raging  gorge  thought  every  day  even  as  long  as  a 
fhort  for  ever,untii  they  were  filled  with  the  body 
and  foul,with  the  flefh  and  bones,and  with  all  the 
An  army  of  delicates  of  manfoul. )  They  there- 
Doubters  fore  refolve  to  make  another  attempt 
and.  Blood-  upon  the  Town  of  manfoul,  and  that 
men.  by  an  army  mixed  and  made  up  partly 

of  Doubters  and  partly  of  Blood-men.  A  more 
particular  account  now  take  of  both. 

The  Doubters  are  fuch  as  have  their  name  from 
Of  the  coun-  their  nature,  as  well  as  from  the  lord 
■tries  of  the  and  kingdom  where  they  are  born: 
Doubters,  their  nature  is  put  to  a  queftion  upon 
and  of  the  every  one  of  the  truths  of  Emmanuel, 
Blood-men.  and  their  country  is  called  the  Land 
of  Doubting,  and  that  land  lyeth  off  and  furthell 
remote  to  the  north,  between  the  Land  of  Dark- 
nefs  and  that  called  the  Valley  of  the  Shadow  of 
Death  :  for  though  the  Land  of  Darknefs  and  that 
called  the  Land  of  the  Shadow  of  Death  be  fomc- 


The  HOLY    WAR.  303 

times  called  as  if  they  were  one  and  the  felf-iame 
place,yet  indeed  they  are  two^lying  but  a  little  way 
afunder,  and  the  Land  of  Doubting  points  in,  and 
lyeth  between  them  ;  this  is  the  Land  of  Doubting, 
and  thefe  that  came  with  Diabolus  to  ruin  the 
Town  of  manfoul  are  the  natives  of  that  country. 

The  Blood-men  are  a  people  that  have  their 
name  derived  from  the  malignity  .of  their  nature 
and,  from  the  fury  that  is  in  them  to  execute  it 
upon  the  Town  of  manfoul;  their  land  lyeth  under 
the  Dog-ftar,  and  by  that  they  are  governed  as  to 
their  intellectuals.  The  name  of  their  country  is 
the  Province  of  Loathe-gocd  :  their  mote  parts  of 
it  are  far  diitant  from  the  land  of  Doubting^  yet 
they  do  both  butt  and  bound  upon  the  hill  called 
Hellgate-hill.  Thefe  people  are  always  in  league 
with  the  Doubters ;  for  they  jointly  do  make  ques- 
tion of  the  faith  and  fidelity  of  the  men  of  the 
Town  of  manfoul,andfoare  both  alike  qualified  for 
the  fervice  of  their  prince. 
Now  of  thefe  two  countries  did  Diabolus,by  the 
The  num*  beating  of  his  drum,  raife  another. 
ber  of  his  army  againfl  the  Town  of  manfoul, 
new  army,  of  five  and  twenty  thoufand  ftrong. 
There  were  ten  thoufand  Doubters,  and  fifteen 
thoufand  Blood-men,and  they  were  put  under  fe- 
veral  captains  for  the  war  ;  and  old  Incredulity 
was  again  made  general  of  the  army. 

As  for  the  Doubters, their  captains  were  five  of 
the  feven  that  were  heads  of  the  laft  Diabolonian 
army,  and  thefe  are  their  names  ;  Captain  Beelze- 
bub, Captain  Lucifer,  Captain  Apollyon,  Captain 
Legion,  and  Captain  Cerberus  ;  -  and  rhe.captai.ns 
that. they  had  before  werefome  of  them  made  lieu- 
tenants, and  fome  enflgns,  of  the  army. 

But  Diabolus  did  not  count  that,  in  this   expe- 
dition of  his,thefe  Doubters  would  pro\Le  hisprin- 
C  c  2 


304  The    HOLY   WAR. 

cipal  men  ;  for  their  manhood  had  been  tried  be- 
fore, alfo  the  Manlbulians  had  put  them  to  the 
worft  ;  only  he  did  bring  them  to  multiply  a  num- 
ber, and  to  help,  if  need  was,  at  a  pinch  :  but  his 
His  chief  truit  he  put  in  his  Blood-men  ;  for  that 
firength  they  were  all  rugged  villains,  and  he 
lyes  in  the  knew  that  they  had  done  feats  here- 
Blood-men.  tofore. 

As  for  the  Blood-men,they  alfo  were  under  com- 
Caftains  of  mand  ;  and  the  names  of  their  cap- 
the  Blood-  tains  were  Captain  Cain,  Captain 
men.  Nimrod,   Captain   Ifhmael,    Captain 

Efau,  Captain  Saul,  Captain  Abfalom,  Captain 
Judas,  and  Captain  Pope. 

1.  Captain  Cain  was  over  two  bands,  to  wir, 
The  zealous  and  the  angry  Blood-men  ;  his  iland- 
~,     .    «      ard  bearer  bear  the  Red Colour \r,and  his 

fcutcheon  was  the  Murdering  Club. 

2.  Captain  Nimrod  wascaptain  over  two  bands, 
to  wit,The  tyrannical  and  incroaching  Blood-men  ; 
^        ,£        his  ftandard-bearcr  bare    the  Red  Co- 

,9'  fours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was  the  Great 
Blood-hound. 

3.  Captain  Ifhmaelwas  captain  over  two  bands, 
to  wit, Over  the  mocking  and  fcorning  Blood-men  ; 
GV/;.xxi.  his  ftandard-bearer  bare  the  RedCo- 
9.,  10.  lours y  and  his  fcutcheon  was  one  mockr 
ing  at  j4bral:aiits  Ifaac. 

4.  Captain  Efau  was  captain  over  two  bands, 
to  wit, The  Blood-men  that  grudged  that  another 
fhould  have  the  bleffing;  alfo  over  the  Blood-men 
GV/z.xxvii.  that  are  for  executing  their  private 
42, — 45.  revenge  upon  others  ;  his  ftandard- 
bearer  bare  the  Red  Colours,  and  his  fcutcheon 
was  one  -privately  lurking  to  murder  Jacob. 

5.  Captain  Saul  was  captain  over  two  bawds, 
to  wit, The  ground! eilly  jealous  and  the  devilifhly 


The    HOLY    WAR,  305* 

furious  Blood-men  ;  his  ftandard-bearer  bare  the 

1  Sam.  xviii.  Red  Colours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was 
10.  8c  xix.  10.  Three  bloody  Darts  cafl  at  harmlefs 
8c  xx.  33.         David. 

6.  Captain   Abfalom    was  captain    over    two 

2  Sam.  xv.  bands,  to  wit,  Over  the  Blood-men 
xvh  xvii.  that  will  kill  a  father  or  a  friend  for 
chapters,  the  glory  of  this  world  ;  alfo  over 
thofe  Blood-men  that  will  hold  one  fair  in  hand 
with  words  till  they  fhall  have  pierced  him  with 
their  fwords  ,  his  ftandard-bearer  did  bear  the 
Red  Colours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was  the  Son  a-fur* 
fuing  the  Father's  Blood. 

7.  Captain  Judas  was  over  two  bands,  to  wit, 
The  Blood-men  that  will  fell  a  man's  life  for 
money,  and  thofe  alfo  that  will  betray  their  friend 
Mat.  xxvi.  with  a  kifs  ;  his  ftandard-bearer  bare 
14,  iy,  16.  the  RedColours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was 
thirty  Pieces  of  Silver,  and  the  Halter. 

8.  Captain  Pope  was  captain  over  one  band  ;  for 
Rev.  xiii.  allthefe  fpirits  are  joined  in  one  under 
7,  8.  him  ;  his  ftandard-bearer  bare  the 
Dan.  xi.  33.  Red  Colours,  and  his  fcutcheon  was 
the  Stake,  the  Flame,  and  the  good  Man  in  it. 

*  Now  the  reafon  why  Diabolus  did  fo  foon 
*The  con-  rally  another  force,  after  he  had  been 
ditions  of  beaten  out  of  the  field,  was,  for  that 
the  Bloods  he  put  mighty  confidence  in  this  army 
men,  their  of  Blood-men  ;  for  he  put  a  great  deal 
Jloutnefs  of  more  truft  in  them  than  he  did  bc- 
and  valour,  fore  in  his  army  of  Doubters,  though 
they  had, alfo  often  done  great  fervice  for  him  irj 
the  ftrengthening  of  him  in  his  kingdom.  But 
thefe  Blood-men  he  had  proved  them  often,  and 
their  fword  did  feldom  return  empty.  Befides, 
heknewthat  thefe,likemaftiifs, would  faften  upon 
any  3  upon  father,  mother,  brother,  filter,  prince, 
C  c   3 


5o6  The   HOLY    WAR. 

or  governor,  yea,  upon  the  Prince  of  princes. 
And  that  which  encouraged  him  the  more  was, 
for  that  they  once  did  force  Emmanuel  out  of  the 
kingdom  of  Univerfe  ;  and  why,  thought  he,  may 
they  not  alfo  drive  him  from  the  Town  of  man- 
foul  ? 

So  this  army  of  five-and-twenty  thoufand  ftrong 
They  fit  was,  by  their  general,  the  great  Lord 
down  be-  Incredulity,  led  up  againft  the  Town  of 
fore  Man-mix\fovi\>  Now  Mr.  Pry  well  the  Scout- 
foul :  mailer-general  did  himfelf  go  out  to  fpy, 
and  he  did  bring  manfoul  tidings  of  their  coming  : 
wherefore  they  fhut  up  their  gates,  and  put  them- 
felves  in  a  pofture  of  defence  againft  thefe  new 
Diabolonians  that  came  up  againfl  the  Town. 

So  Diabolus  brought  up  his  army,  and  be- 
How  they  ieaguered  the  Town  of  mahfoul  ;  the 
difpofe  of  Doubters  were  placed  about  Feel-gate, 
themfelves :  and  the  Blood-men  fet  down  before 
Eye-gate  and  Ear-gate. 

Now,  when  this  army  had  thus  in  camped  them- 
They  fum-  felves,  Incredulity  did,  in  the  name  of 
vivi  the  Diabolus,  his  own  name,  and  in  the 
Town  with  name  cf  the  Blood-men,  and  the  reft 
a  threaten-  that  were  with  him,  fend  a  fummons, 
ing.  as  hot  as  a  red-hot  iron,    to  manfoul, 

toyield  to  their  demands,  threatening  that,  if  they 
ftill  ftood  it  out  againft  them, they  would  prefently 
burn  down  manfoul  with  fire.  For  youmufl  know, 
that  as  for  the  Blood-men,they  fought  not  fo  much 
that  manfoul  mould  be  furrendered  as  that  man- 
foul mould  be  deftroyed  and  cut  elf  out  of  the 
land  of  the  living.  True,  they  fent  to  them  to 
furrender ;  but,  mould  they  fo  do  that  would  not 
launch  or  quench  the  thirds  of  thefe  men  :  they 
mu ft  have  blood,  the  blood  of  manfoul,  elfe  they 
die;  and  it  is  fromhencethat  they  havetheirname. 


The    HOLY   WAR.  3oy 

Wherefore  thefe  Blood-men  he  rcferved  while  now, 
Pf.  lxxiv.2,  that  they  might, when  all  his  engines 
3.  Ifa,  lix.7.  proved  ineffectual, as  his  laft  and  fure 
^r,xx:i.i7.cald,  be  played  againlt  the  Town  of 
manfoul. 

Now,  when  the  townfmen  had  received  this 
red-hot  fummons,it  begat  in  them  at  prefent  feme 
changing  and  interchanging  thoughts  ;  but  they 
jointly  agreed  in  lefs  than  half  an  hour  to  carry 
the  fummons  to  the  Prince,  the  which  they  did, 
pr  ,  yr  when  they  had  writ  at  the  bottom 
'  ■  ■,  of  it,    "Lord,     fave    manfoul  from 

"bloody  men." 

So  he  took  it, and  looked  upon  it, and  considered 
it,  and  took  notice  alfo  of  that  inert  petition  that 
the  men  of  manfoul  had  written  at  the  bottom  of 
it,and  called  to  him  the  noble  Capt.  Credence, and 
bid  him  go  and  take  Capt.  Patience  with  him,  and 
go  and  take  care  of  that  fide  of  manfoul  that  was 
beleaguered  by  the  Blood-men.  So  they  went 
/&£.vi.i2,and  did  as  they  were  commanded  ;  then 
1 5.  Captain  Credence  went  and  took  Capt. 

Patience,  and  they  both  fecured  that  fide  of  man- 
foul that  was  beiieged  by  the  Blood-men. 

Then  he  commanded  that  Captain  Good-hope, 
and  Captain  Charity,  and  my  Lord  Willbewill, 
mould  take  charge  ot  the  other  fide  of  the  Town  ; 
and  I,  faid  the  Prince,  will  fet  my  (tandard  upon 
the  battlements  of  your  Caftle,  and  do  you  three 
watch  againft  the  Doubters.  This  done, he  again 
commanded  that  the  brave  Captain,  the  Captain 
Experience,  mould  draw  up  his  men  in  the  mar- 
ket-place, and  that  there  he  mould  exercife  them 
day  by  day  before  the  people  of  the  Town  of  man- 
foul. Now  this  fiege  was  long  and  many  a  fleece 
attempt  did  the  enemy,  efpecially  thofe  called  the 
Blood-men,  make  upon  the  Town  of  manfoul, 


3o8  The    HOLY    WAR. 

and  many  a  fhrewd  brum  did  fome  of  the  townf- 

Captain        men  meet  with  from  them  ;  cfpecially 

Self-denial  Capt.  Self-denial,  who,  I  (liould    have 

lafl  put  in-  rold  you  before,    was   commanded   to 

to  office  in   take  the  care  of  Ear-gate  and  Eye-gate 

Manfoul :   now  againfl  the  Blood-men.  This  Capt. 

Self-denial  was  a  young  man, but  flout,  &  a  tewnf- 

man  in  manfoul, as  Capt. Experience  alfo  was  ;  and 

Emmanuel,  at  his  fecond  return  to  manfoul,  made 

him  a  Capt.  over  a  thoufand  of  the   Manfoulians, 

for  the  good  of  the  Corporation.     This   Captain, 

tj.       t         therefore,  being  an  hardy  man,  and  a 
His  valour  :  c  &  JA       .,}• 

man  of  great  courage,  and   willing  to 

venture  himfelf  for  the  good  of  the  Town  of  man- 
foul, would,  now  and  then,  fally  out  upon  the 
Blood-men,  and  give  them  many  notable  alarms, 
and  entered  feveral  brifk  fkirmifhes  with  them, 
and  alfo  did  fome  execution  upon  them  ;  but 
you  mull  think  that  this  could  not  eafily  be 
done,  but  he  muft  meet  with  brufhes  himfelf;  for 
His  figns  of  he  carried  feveral  of  their  marks  in 
manhood.  his  face,  yea,  and  fome  in  fome  other 
parts  of  his  body. 

So,  after  fome  time,  fpent  for  the  trial  of  the 
Emmanuel  faith,  and  hope,  and  love,  of  the  town 
prepares  to  of  manfoul,  the  Prince  Emmanuel, upon 
give  the  a  day,  calls  his  Captains  and  men  of 
enemy  war  together,  and  divides  them  into 
haitle.  two  companies  :  this  done,  he  com- 
mands them,  at  a  time  appointed,  and  that  in  the 
morning  very  early,to  fally  out  upon  the  enemy  ; 
faying,  Let  half  of  you  fall  upon  the  Doubters, 
How  he  and  half  of  you  fall  upon  the  Blood-men. 
ordered  Thofe  of  you  that  go  out  againfl  the 
his  men.  Doubters,  kill  and  ilay,  and  caufe  to 
peiilh,  fo  many  of  them  as  by  any  means  you 
can  lay  hands  on   3    but   for  you   that   go  out 


The    HOLY    WAR.  309 

againft  the  Blood-men,  (lay  them  nor,  but  take 
them  alive. 

So,  at  the  time  appointed,betimes  in  the  morn- 
The  cap-  ing,  the  Captains  went  out, as  they  were 
tains  go  commanded,  againft  the  enemies:  Cap- 
eut.  tain  Good-hope,    Captain    Charity,    and 

thofe  that  were  joined  with  them,  as  Captain 
Innocent,  and  Captain  Experience,  went  out 
againft  the  Doubters  ;  and  Captain  Credence, and 
Captain  Patience,  with  Captain  Self-denial,  and 
the  reft  that  were  to  join  with  them,  went  out 
againft  the  Blood-men. 

Now  thele  that  went  out  againft  the  Doubters 
The  Doubt-  drew  up  into  a  body  before  the  plain, 
ers  put  to  and  marched  on  to  bid  them  battle  : 
flight.  but  the  Doubters,  remembering  their 

laft  fuccefs,  made  a  retreat,  not  daring  to  ftand 
the  (hock, but  fled  from  the  Prince's  men  ;  where- 
fore they  purfued  them,  and  in  their  purfuit  flew 
many,  but  they  could  not  catch  them  all.  Now 
thofe  that  efcaped  went  fome  of  them  home,  and 
the  reft  by  rives,  nines,  and  feven  teens,  like  wan- 
derers, went  ftraggling  up  and  down  the  country, 
where  they,  upon  the  barbarous  people,  (hewed 
and  exercifed  many  of  their  Diabolonian  actions  ; 
The  unhe-  nor  did  thefe  people  rile  up  in  arms 
liever  never  againft  them,  but  fufTered  themfelves 
fights  the  to  be  enflaved  by  them.  They  would 
Doubters.  alfo,  after  this,  (hew  themfelves  in 
companies  before  the  Town  of  manfoul,  but  ne- 
ver to  abide  it  ;  for  if  Captain  Credence,  Captain 
Good-hope,  or  Captain  Experience,  did  but  fliew 
themfelves,  they  fled. 

Thofe  that  went  out  againft  the  Blood-men 
The  Blood-  did  as  they  were  commanded  ;  they 
men  taken,  forbore  to  flay  any,  but  fought  to 
tndhozv.     compafs  them  about.     But    the  Blood- 


3io  The    HOLY    WAR. 

men,  when  they  faw  that  no  Emmanuel  was  in 
the  field,  concluded  alfo  that  no  Emmanuel  was. 
in  manfoul  ;  wherefore  they  looked  upon  what 
the  Captains  did  to  be,  as  they  called  it,  a  fruit 
of  the  extravagancy  of  their  wild  and  foolifh 
fancies,  rather  dcfpifed  them  than  feared  them; 
but  the  Captains,  minding  their  bufinefs,  at  laft 
did  compafs  them  round  ;  they  alfo  that  had 
routed  the  Doubters  came  in  amain  to  their  aid  : 
fo,  in  fine,  after  fome  little  flruggljng,  for  the 
Biood-men  alfo  would  have  run  for  it,  only  now 
it  was  too  late  (for  tho'  they  are  mifchievous  and 
cruel  where  they  can  overcome,yet  all  Blood-men 
are  chicken-hearted  men  when  they  once  come  to 
fee  themJelves  matched  and  equalled)  {o  the  Cap- 
tains took  them,  and  brought  them  to  the  Prince, 

Now,  wjien  they  were  taken,  had  before  the 
They  are  Prince,  and  examined,  he  found  them 
of  three  to  be  of  three  feveral  countries,  though 
forts,        they  all  came  out  of  one  land. 

i.  One  fort  of  them  came  out  of  Blindmanfliire, 
•i  Tim.  i.  and  they  were  fuch  as  did  ignorantly 
13, — 15.  what  they  did. 

2.  Another  fort  of  them  came  out  of  Blindzeal- 
Mat.  v.  44.  ihire,  and  they  did  fuperititioufly 
Luie.v1.22.  what  they  did, 

3.  the  third  fort  of  them  came  out  of  the  Town 
Johnxvu  2,  of  Malice,  in  the  county  of  Envy, 
-3.  Acts  ix.i.and  they  did  what  they   did   out   of 

2.  Rev.  ix.  fpite  and  implacablenefs. 
20,  21.  John  For  the  firft  of  thefe,  to  wit,  they 
viii.  40, —  that  came  out  of  Blindman(hire,when 
43,  &c.  they  faw  where  they  were, and  againft 
whom  they  had  fought,  they  trembled,  and  cried 
as  they  flood  before  him  ;  and  as  many  of  thefe 
as  afked  him  mercy,  he  touched  their  lips  with 
his  golden  fceptre. 


The    HOLY    WA  R.  311 

They  that  came  out  of  Blindzealiliire.  They 
did  not  as  their  fellows  did  ;  for  they  pleaded, 
that  they  had  right  to  do  what  they  did  ;  becaufe 
manfoul  was  a  Town  whofe  laws  and  cuftoms 
were  diverfe  from  all  that  dwelt  thereabouts. 
Very  few  of  thefe  could  be  brought  to  fee  their 
evil ;  but  thofe  that  did,  and  afked  mercy,  they 
alfo  obtained  favour. 

Now, they  that  came  out  of  theTown  of  Malice, 
that  is,in  the  county  of  Envy,  they  neither  wept, 
nor  difputed,  nor  repented,  but  flood  gnawing  of 
their  tongues  before  him  for  anguifli  arid  madnefs, 
becaufe  they  could  not  have  their  will  upon  man- 
The  Blood-  foul.  Now  thefe  laft,  with  all  thofe 
men  bound  of  the  other  two  forts  that  did  not 
ever  to  an-  unfeignedly  afk  pardon  for  their 
fiver  for  what  faults,  thofe  he  made  to  enter  into 
they  had  done  fufficient  bond  to  anfwer  'for  what 
at  the  ajjlzes.  they  had  done  againft  manfoul,  and 
The  day  of  againft  her  King,  at  the  great  and 
judgment.  general  allizes  to  be  holden  for  our 
Lord  theKing,where  he  himfelffhould  appoint, for 
the  country  and  kingdom  of  Univerfe. 

So  they  became  bound  each  man  for  himfelf  to 
come  in,  when  called  upon,  to  anfwer  before  our 
Lord  the  King  for  what  they  had  done  as  before. 

And  thus  much  concerning  this  fecond  army 
that  was  fent  by  Diabolus  to  overthrow  manfoul. 

But  there  were  three  of  thofe  that  came  from 
the  Land  of  Doubting,  who  after  they  had  wandered 
and  ranged  the  country  a  while,  and  perceived 
that  they  had  efcaped,  were  fo  hardy  as  to  thruft 
themfelves,  knowing  that  yet  there  were  in  the 
Town  DiaboloniansJ  fay,  they  were  fo  hardy  as  to 
Three  or  thruft  themfelves  into  manfoul  among 
four  of  the  them.  (Three,  did  I  fay,  I  think  there 
Doubters    were  four.)      Now,   to   whofe  houfe 


3i*  The  HOLY    WAR. 

go  to  Man-  fhould   thefe     Diabolonian    Doubters 
foul  and,    go  but  to   the  houfe  of  an   old   Diabo- 
by  whom     Ionian  in   manfoul,    whofe  name   was 
^/zter/tf/Vi.Evil-queflioning  ;  a  verv  great  enemy 
he  was  to  manfoul,  and  a  great   doer  among  the 
Diaboloniansthere.  Well, to  this Evil-queftioning's 
houfe,  as  was  faid,  did  thefe   Diabolonians  come  ; 
(you  may  be  fure  that  they  had  directions  how  to 
find  the  way  thither)  fo  he  made  them  welcome, 
pitied  their  misfortune,  and  fuccoured  them   with 
thebefl  that  he  had  in  his  houfe.  Now,after  a  little 
acquaintance,and  it  was  not  long  before  they  had 
that, this  old  Evil-queitioning  afked  the  Doubters 
if  they  were  all  of  one  Town  (he  knew  that  they 
IV hat  fort    were  all  of  one  kingdom.)     And  they 
of  Doubters  anfwered,  No,  nor  not    of  one   fhire 
they  are.      neither  ;  for  I,  faid  one,  am   an  Elec- 
tion-Doubter.      I,    faid    another,   am    a    Voca- 
tion-Doubter.      Then   faid  the    third,    I  am  a 
Salvation-Doubter.    And  the  fourth  faid,  he  was 
a  Grace-Doubter.  "Well,"  quoth  the  old  gentle- 
man, "be  of  what  fhire  you  will,  I  am   perfuaded 
that  you  are  down  boys,you  have  the  very  length 
of  my  foot,  are  one  with  my  heart,  and   /hall   be 
welcome  to  me."     So  they  thanked  him,and  were 
glad  that  they  had  found   themfelves  an  harbour 
in  manfoul.     Then  faidEvil-queftioning  to  them, 
Talk  be-   how    many     of  your   company'  might 
twist  the  there  be    that   came   with   you   to   the 
Doubters  flege  of  manfoul  ?  And   they  anfwered, 
end  old     There  were  but  ten  thoufand    Doubters 
Eril-que-  in  all  ;  for  the  reft  of  the  army  confilted 
ftiojiing.  of  fifteen    thoufand   Blood-men  :  thefe 
Blood-men  quoth  they,border  upon  our  country  ; 
bur,  poor  men,  as  we  hear,  they  were  every  one 
taken   by   Emmanuel's   forces.     Ten   thoufand  ! 
quoth  the  old  gentleman,  Til  promife  you   that's 


The   HOLY    WAR.  313 

a  round  company.  But  how  came  it  to  pafs,  fince 
you  were  fo  mighty  a  number,  that  yon  fainted, 
and  durft  not  fight  your  foes  ?  Our  general,  faid 
they,  was  the  flrft  man  that  did  run  for't.  Pray, 
quoth  their  landlord, who  was  that  your  cowardly 
general  I  He  was  once  the  Lord  Mayor  of  man- 
foul,  faid  they  :  but,pray,call  him  not  a  cowardly 
general;  for  whether  any  from  the  eaft  to  the  well 
has  done  more  fervice  for  our  prince  Diabolus 
than  has  my  Lord  Incredulity  will  be  a  hard 
que/Hon  for  you  to  anfwer  :  but, had  they  catched 
him,  they  would  for  certain  have  hanged  him  ; 
and  we  promife  you  hanging  is  but  a  bad  bufi- 
nefs.  Then  faid  the  old  gentleman,  I  would  that 
all  the  ten  thoufand  Doubters  were  now  well  arm- 
ed in  manfoul,  and  myfelf  at  the  head  of  them,  I 
-would  fee  what  I  could  do.  Ay,  faid  they,  that 
would  be  well  it  we  could  fee  that  :  but  wifhes, 
alas  !  what  are  they  ?  Andthefe  words  were  fpoken 
aloud.  Well,  faid  old  Evil-queftioning,  take  heed 
that  you  talk  not  too  loud  ;  you  muft  be  quiet  and 
clofe,  and  muft  take  care  of  yourfelves  while  you 
are  here,  or,  HI  afTure  you,  you  will  be  fnapt. 

Why  ?  quoth  the  Doubters. 

Why  (quoth  the  old  gentleman)  why  ?  becaufe 
both  the  Prince,and  Lord  Secretary,and  their  cap- 
tains^and  foldiers,are  all  at  prefent  in  Town  ;  yea, 
the  Town  is  as  full  of  them  as  ever  it  can  hold. 
Andbefides,there  is  one  whofename  is  Willbewill, 
a  mod  cruel  enemy  of  ours,  and  him  the  Prince 
has  made  keeper  of  the  gates,  and  has  commanded 
him  that,  with  all  the  diligence  he  can,  he  mould 
look  for,  fearch  out,  and  deflroy  all  and  all  man- 
ner of  Diabolonians  ;  and  if  he  lighteth  upon  yovi, 
down  you  go,  tho*  your  heads  were  made  of  gold. 

And  now,  to  fee  how  it  happened,  one  of  the 
Lord  Wiilbewill's  faithful  foldiers,  whole  name 
Dd 


314  The   HOLY    WAR. 

They  are  was  Mr.  Diligence,ftood  all  this  while 
overheard:  liftening  under  old  Evil-queitioning's 
eaves,  and  heard  all  the  talk  that  had  been  be- 
twixt him  and  the  Doubters  that  he  entertained 
under  his  roof. 

The  foldier  was  a  man  that  my  Lord  had  much 
confidence  in,  and  that  he  loved  dearly,  and  that 
both  becaufe  he  was  a  man  of  courage,  and  alfo  a 
man  that  was  unwearied  in  feeking  after  Diabolo- 
nians  to  apprehend  them. 

Now,  this  man,  as  I  told  you,  heard  all  the  talk 
They  are  that  was  between  old  Evil-queftion- 
di [covered :  ing  &  thefe  Diabolonians ;  wherefore 
what  does  he  but  goes  to  his  lord,  and  tells  him 
what  he  hadheard.  And  fay  eft  thou  fo,my  Trufty  ? 
quoth  my  Lord.  Ay,  quoth  Diligence,that  I  do  ; 
and,  if  your  Lordfhip  Ihall  be  pleafed  to  go  with 
me,  you  mall  find  it  as  I  have  faid.  And  are  they 
there  ?  quoth  my  Lord.  I  know  Evil-queftioning 
well,  for  he  and  I  weregreat  in  the  time  of  our  apo- 
flafy  ;  but  Iknownotnow  where  he  dwells.  But  I 
do,faidhis  man  ;  and  if  your  Lordfhip  will  go,I  will 
lead  you  the  way  to  his  den.  Go  !  quoth  my  Lord, 
that  I  will.  Come,my  Diligence,let  us  go  find  them 
out.  So  my  Lord  and  his  man  went  together  the 
direct  way  to  his  houfe.  Now  his  man  went  before 
to  mew  him  his  way,and  they  went  till  they  came 
even  under  old  Mr.  Evil-queftioning's  wall  :  then 
faid  Diligence,Hark  !  my  Lord  ;  do  you  know  the 
old  gentleman's  tongue  when  you  hear  it  I  Yes,faid 
my  Lord, I  know  it  well  ;  but  I  have  not  feen  him 
many  a  day.  This  I  know  he  is  cunning,  I  wifli 
he  doth  not  give  us  the  flip.  .  Let  me  alone  for 
that,  faid  his  fervant  Diligence.  But  how  (hall 
we  find  the  door,  quoth  my  Lord  ?.Let  me  alone 
for  that  too,  faid  his  man.  So  he  had  my  Lord 
Willbewill  about,  and  mewed  him  the  way  to  the 


The    HOLY    WAR.  315 

door.  Then  my  Lord,  without  more  ado,  broke 
They  are  open  the  door,  ruffied  into  the  houfe, 
apprehend-  and  caught  them  all  five  together,  even 
ed,  and  as  Diligence  his  man  had  told  .him. 
committed  So  my  Lord  apprehended  them,  and 
to  pr  if  on.  led  them  away,  and  committed  them 
to  the  hand  of  Mr.  True-man  the  jailer,  and  com- 
The  Lord-  manded,  and  he  did  put  them  in  ward. 
Mayor  is  This  done,  my  Lord  Mayor  was  ac- 
glad  at  it.  quainted  in  the  morning  with  what 
my  Lord  Willbewill  had  done  over  night,  and  his 
Lordihip  rejoiced  much  at  the  news,  not  only  be- 
caufe  there  were  Doubters  apprehended,  but  be- 
caufe  that  old  Evil-queftioning  was  taken  ;  for, 
he  had  been  a  very  great  trouble  to  manfoul,  and 
much  affliction  to  my  Lord  Mayor  himfelf.  He 
had  alfo  been  fought  for  often,  but  no  hand  could 
ever  be  laid  upon  him  till  now. 

Well,  the  next  thing  was' to  make  preparation 
to  try  thefe  five  that  by  my  Lord  had  been  appre- 
hended, and  that  were  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  True- 
They  are  man  the  jailer.  So  the  day  was  fet,and 
brought  to  the  Court  called,  and  come  together, 
trial.  and  the  prifoners   brought  to   the  bar. 

My  Lord  Willbewill  hadpower  to  have  flain  them 
when  at  firfl  he  took  them,  and  that  without  any 
more  ado,  but  he  thought  it  at  this  time  more  for 
the  honour  of  the  Prince,  the  comfort  of  manfoul, 
and  the  difcouragement  of  the  enemy,  to  bring 
them  forth  to  public  judgment. 

But  I  fay,  Mr.  Trueman  brought  them  in  chains 
to  the  bar, to  the  Town-hall, for  that  was  the  place 
of  judgment.  So,to  be  fhort,the  jury  was  panneled, 
thevwitnefTes  fworn.and  the  prifoners  tried  for  their 
lives. Thejury  was  the  fame  who  tried  Mr.  Nu-t  ruth, 
Pitilefs,Haughty,and  the  reft  of  their  companions. 

And  firfl:  old  Questioning  himfelf  was  fet  :o  the 

Dd2 


gi6  The    HOLY    WAR. 

bar  ;  for  he  was  the  receiver,the  entertainer,and 
comforter,  of  thefe  Doubters,  that  by  nation  were 
outlandifh  men.  Then  he  was  bid  to  hearken  to  his 
charge,and  was  told  that  he  had  liberty  to  object, 
if  he  had  ought  to  fay  for  himfelf.  So  his  indict- 
ment was  read, the  manner  and  form  here  follows: 

"Mr.  Queftioning,thou  art  here  indicted  by  the 
His  indift-  name  of  Evil-queflioning  (an  intruder 
merit.  upon  the   Town  of  manfoul)  for  that 

thou  art  a  Diabolonian  by  nature,  and  alfo  a  hater 
of  the  Prince  Emmanuel, and  one  that  hall  ftudied 
the  ruin  of  the  Town  of  manfoul.  Thou  art  alio 
here  indicted  forcountenancingtheKing's  enemies, 
after  wholefome  laws  made  to  the  contrary.  For, 
I.  Thou  queltioned  the  truth  of  her  doctrine  and 
Itate.  2. In  wifhing  that  ten  thoufand  Doubters  were 
in  her.  3.  In  receiving,in  entertaining  and  encou- 
raging of  her  enemies  rhar  came  from  their  army 
unto  thee.  What  fayeft  thou  to  this  indictment  I 
Art  thou  guilty  or  not  guilty  ? 

"My  Lord,  quoth  he,  I  know  not  the  meaning 

tr-  ^1  of  this  indictment,  forafmuch  as  lam 
His  tlea.  ,  ,  .  T-, 

r  not  the  man  concerned  in  it.  The  man 

that  ftandeth   by  this  charge  accufed  before  this 

bench  is  called  by  the    name    of  E-oil-qu e 'jl toning, 

which  name  I  deny  to  be  mine,mine  being  Hondt- 

inqniring.    The  one  indeed  founds  like  the  other, 

but  I  trow, your  Lordfhips  know  that  between  thefe 

two  there isawidedifference; for  Ihopethataman, 

evenintheworft  of  times,and  that  too  amongft  the 

worft  of  men,  may  make  an  honeft  inquiry  after 

things  without  running  the  danger  of  death/' 

IVillb.  ThenfpakemyLordWillbewill,forhewas 

Lord  IVill-    one  of  the  witneffes :  "My  Lord, and 

bewill's  tef-  you  the  Honourable  bench,  and  Ma- 

timony.  giitrates  of  the    Town  of  manfoul, 

you  all  have  heard  with  your  ears,   that   the  pri- 


,      The    HOLY    WAR.  317 

foner  at  the  bar  has  denied  his  name,and  To  thinks 
to  fhift  from  the  charge  of  the  indictment  ;  but  1 
know  him  to  be  the  man  concerned,  and  that  his 
proper  name  is  Evil-queftioning.  I  have  known 
him  (my  Lord)  above  this  thirty  years,for  he  and  . 
I  (a  lhame  it  is  for  me  to  fpeak  it)  were  great  ac- 
quaintance when  Diaboius  that  tyrant  had  the  go* 
vernment  of  manfoul  ;  and  I  teftify  that  he  is  a 
Diabolonian  by  nature,  an  enemy  to  our  Prince, 
and  a  hater  of  the  blefTed  Town  of  manfoul.  He 
has,  in  times  of  rebellion,  been  at  and  lain  in  my 
houfe,  my  Lord,  not  fo  little  as  twenty  nights  to- 
gether ;  and  we  did  ufe  to  talk  then  (for  the  fub- 
itance  of  talk)  as  he  and  his  Doubters  have  talked 
of  late.  True,  I  have  not  feen  him  many  a  day.  I 
fuppofe  that  the  coming  of  Emmanuel  to  manfoul 
has  made  him  to  change  his  lodgings, as  this  indict- 
ment has  driven  him  to  change  his  name  ;  but 
this  is  the  man,  my  Lord." 

~>,    ~  Then  faid   the  Court  unto  him, 

The  Court,       n  A    .  r      > 

Halt  thou  any  more  to  fay  : 

Evil.  Yes,quoth  the  old  gentleman, that  I  have; 
tj.      ,      for  all  that  as  yet  has  been  faid   againit 

ts  T  ea*  me  is  DUt  t>y  tne  mouth  of  one  witnefs,  • 
and  it  is  not  lawful  for  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul 
at  the  mouth  of  one  witnefs  to  put  any  man  to  death. 

Dilig.  Then  flood  forth  Mr.  Diligence,and  faid, 
Mr.  Dili-  "My  Lord,  as  I  was  upon  my  watch 
gence'stef-teoh  a  night,  at  the  head  of Baditreet 
timony.  in  this  Town,  Iehanced  to  hear  a  raut- 
tering  within  this  gentleman's  houfe;  than  thought 
I,What?s  to  do  here  ?  So  I  went  up  clofe,but  very 
foftly,  to  the  lide  of  the  houfe  to  liften,  thinking, 
as  indeed  it  fell  out,  that  there  I  might  light  upon 
fome  Diabolonian  conventicle.  So,as  I  faid,ldrew 
nearer  and  nearer  ;  and  when  I  was  got  up  clofe 
to  the  wall,  it  was  but  a  while  before  I  perceiv- 
Dd  2 


3i3  The    HOLY      WAR. 

cd  that  there  were  outlandifh  men  in  the  houfe, 
(but  I  did  well  underltand  their  fpeech,for  I  have 
been  a  traveller  myfelf ).  Now,  hearing  fuch  lan- 
guage in  fuch  a  tottering  cottage  as  this  old  gen- 
tleman dwelt  in,  I  clapt  mine  ear  to  a  hole  in  the 
window,  and  there  heard  them  talk  asfolloweth  : 
This  old  Mr.  Queftioning  afked  thefe  Doubters 
what  they  were  ?  whence  they  came  ?  and  whac 
was  their  bufinefs  in  thefe  parts  I  And  they  told 
him  to  all  thefe  queitions ;  yet  he  did  entertain 
them.  He  alfo  afked,  what  numbers  there  were 
of  them  ?  and  they  told  him,  Ten  thoufand  men. 
He  then  afked  them,  why  they  made  no  more 
manly  afTault  upon  man  foul  ?  and  they  told  him. 
So  he  called  their  general  Coward,  for  marching 
off' when  he  fhould  have  fought  for  his  Prince. 
Further,  this  old  Evil-queftioning  wifhed,  and  I 
heard  him  wiih,  Would  all  the  ten  thoufand  Doubt- 
ers were  now  in  manfoul,  and  himfelf  at  the  head 
of  them  ?  He  bid  them  alfo  to  take  heed  and  lye 
quiet  *;  for,  if  they  were  taken  they  muft  die, 
although  they  had  heads  of  gold." 

Then  faid  the  Court,Mr.  Evil-queilioning,here 
~>,  r  is  now  another  witnefs  againft  you, 
me  VfQuru  and  hJs  teftimony  5s  full-  u  Hc  fwears, 

that  you  did  receive  thefe  men  into  your  houfe, 
and  that  you  did  nourifh  them  there,  though  you 
knew  that  they  were  Diabolonians,and  the  King's 
enemies.  2.  He  fwears,that  you  did  wifh  ten  thou- 
fand of  them  in  manfoul.  3.  He  fwears,  that  you 
did  give  them  advice  to  be  quiet  and  clofe,  left 
they  were  taken  by  theKing's  fervants.  All  which 
manifefted  that  thou  art  a  Diabolonian  ;  for, 
hadil  thou  been  a  friend  to  the  King  thou  wouldft 
have  apprehended  them. 

Evil.  Then  laid  Evil-queftioning,"To  the  firft 
His  Plea,    of  thefe  I  anfwer,  The  men  that  came 


The    HOLY    WAR.  3i9 

into  mine  houfe  were  Grangers,  and  I  took  them 
in  ;  and  is  it  now  become  a  crime  in  manfoul,  for 
a  man  ro  entertain  flrangers  ?  That  I  did  alio 
nourifli  them  is  true  ;  and  why  mould  my  cha- 
rity be  blamed  ?  As  for  the  reafon  why  I  wifhed 
ten  thoufand  of  them  in  manfoul,  I  never  told  it 
to  the  witneffes  nor  to  themfelves.  I  might  wifh 
them  to  be  taken,  and  fo  my  wifh  might  mean 
well  ro  manfoul  for  ought  that  any  yet  knows.  I 
did  alfo  bid  them  take  heed  that  they  fell  not  into 
the  Captain's  hands  ;  but  that  might  be  becaufe  I 
am  unwilling  that  any  man  mould  be  flain,  and 
not  becaufe  I  would  have  the  King's  enemies,  as 
fuch,  efcape." 

My  Lord  Mayor  then  replied,  That  though  it 
was  a  virtue  to  entertain  ftrangcrs,  yet  it  was 
treafon  to  entertain  the  King's  enemies.  And,  for 
what  elfe  thou  haft  faid,thou  doft  by  words  but  la- 
bour to  evade  and  defer  theexecution  of  judgment. 
But  could  there  be  no  more  proved  againil  thee 
but  that  thou  art  a  Diabolonian,  thoumuft  for  that 
die  the  death  by  the  law  ;  but  to  be  a  receiver,  a 
nouriiher,a  countenancer,andaharbourer  of  others 
of  them,  yea,  of  outlandifh  Diabolonians,  yea,  of 
them  that  came  from  far  on  purpofe  to  cut  off  and 
deftroy  our  manfoul  ;  this  mull  not  be  borne." 

Then  faidEvil-queftioning,"I  fee  how  the  game 
His  con-  will  go.  I  muft  die  for  my  name,  and 
clujien.    for  my  charity."  He  then  held  his  peace. 

Then  they  called  the  outlandifh  Doubters  to  the 
bar  ;  and  the  firit  of  them  that  was  arraigned 
was  the  Election-doubter.  So  his  indictment  was 
read  ;  and,  becaufe  he  was  an  outlandiih  man,  the 
fnbftance  of  it  waj  told  him  by  an  interpreter,  to 
The  E/ec-  wit,  "T'hat  he  was  there  charged  with 
non-doubt-  being  an  enemy  of  Emmanuel  the 
er  tried.     Prince,  a  hater  of  the  Town  of  man- 


32o  The    HOLY  WAR. 

foul,  and  an    oppofer  of  her  molt  wholefome  doc- 
trine. 

Then  the  judge  afked  him  if  he  would  plead. 
But  he  faid  only  this,  "That  he  confeffed  that  he 
„.      .      was  an  Election-doubter,  and  that   that 

ts  r  e  Was  the  religion  that  he  had  ever  been 
brought  up  in.  And  faid,  moreover,  if  I  muft  die 
for  my  religion,  I  trow  I  fhall  die  a  martyr,  and 
fo  I  care  the  lefs." 

Judg.  Then  it  was  replied, To  queflion  election 

cri    ^     .is  to  overthrow  a  great  doctrine  of  the 

The  Court,       r    ,  .        ,b  n      .r  .  , 

goipel,  to  wit,    the  Omniiciency,  and 

Power,and  Will  ot  God  ;  to  take  away  the  liberty 

of  God  with  his  creature  ;  to  Humble  the  faith  of 

the  Town  of  manfoul  ;  and  to  make  falvation   to 

depend  upon  works,  and  not  upon  grace.     It  alfo 

belied  the  Word,  and  difquieted  the  minds  of  the 

men  of  manfoul  5  therefore,  by  the  beft  of  laws, 

he  muft  die. 

Then  was  the  Vocation-doubter  called  and  fet 
The  Voca-  to  the  bar  ;  and  his  indictment  for 
tlon  Doubt-  fubftance  was  the  fame  with  the  other  ; 
er  tried,  only  he  was  particularly  charged  with 
denying  the  calling  of  manfoul. 

The  judge  afked  him  alfo,  What  he  had  to  fay 
for  himfelf  ? 

So  he  replied,  "That  he  never  believed  that 
there  was  any  fuch  thing  as  a  diftinct  and  power- 
ful call  of  God  to  manfoul,  otherwife  than  by  the 
general  voice  of  the  Word  :  nor  by  that  neither, 
otherwife  than  as  it  exhorted  them  to  forbear 
evil,  and  to  do  that  which  is  good  :  and,  in  fo 
doing,  a  promife  of  happinefs  is  annexed." 

Then  laid  the  judge,  "Thou  art  a  Diabolonian,* 
and  haft  denied  a  great  part  of  one  of  the  molt  ex- 
perimental truths  of  the  Prince  of  the  Town  of  man- 
foul ;  for  he  has  called,  and  fhe  has  heard  a  moft 


The   HOLY    WAR.  321 

diftinef.  and  powerful  call  of  her  Emmanuel,  by 
which  fhe  has  been  quickened,  awakened,  and 
pofTeffed  with  heavenly  grace,  to  defire  to  have 
communion  with  her  Prince,  to  ferve  him,  and  do 
his  will,  and  to  look  for  her  happinefs  merely  of 
his  good  pleafure.  And  for  thine  abhorrence  of 
this  good  doclrine  thou  muft  die  the  death." 

Then  the  Grace-doubter  was  called,  and  his  in- 
The  Grace-  diclment  was  read  ;  and  he  replied 
doubter  thereto,  "That,  though  he  was  of  the 
tried.  Land  of  Doubting,  his  father  was  the 

offspring  of  a  Pharifee,  and  lived  in  good  falhion 
among  his  neighbours  ;  and  that  he  taught  him 
to  believe  \  and  believe  it  I  do,and  will, that  man- 
foul  fhall  never  be  faved  freely  by  grace." 

Then  faid  the  judge;  why,  the  law  of  the 
Rom.  iii.  Prince  is  plain  ;  1.  Negatively,  "Not  of 
Epb.  ii.  works  :"  2.  Pofitively,  "  By  grace  you 
are  faved."  And  thy  religion  fettleth  in  and  upon 
the  works  of  the  flefh  ;  for  the  works  of  the  law 
are  the  works  of  the  flefh.  Befides,  in  faying  as 
thou  haft  done, thou  haft  robbed  God  of  his  glory, 
and  given  it  to  a  finful  man  ;  thou  haft  robbed 
Chrift  of  the  neceffity  of  his  undertaking,and  the 
fufficiency  thereof,and  haft  given  both  thefe  to  the 
works  of  the  flefh.  Thou  haft  defpifed  the  work 
of  the  Holy  Ghoft,  and  haft  magnified  the  will 
of  the  fiefli,  and  of  the  legal  mind.  Thou  art  a 
Diabolonian,  the.  fori  of  a  Diabolonian,  and  for 
thy  Diabolonian  principles  thou  muft  die. 

The  Court  then, having  proceeded  thus  far  with 
Their  fen-  them,fent  out  the  jury,who  forthwith 
tencetodie.  brought  them  in  guilty  of  death.  Then 
flood  up  the  Recorder,  and  addrefTed  himfelf  to 
the  prifoners  :  "You  the  prifoners  at  the  bar,you 
have  been  here  indicted, and  proved  guilty  of  high 
crimts  againft  Emmanuel  our  Prince,  and  againft 


322  The   HOLY    WAR. 

the  welfare  of  the  famous  Town  of  manfoul : 
crimes  for  which  you  muft  be  put  to  death  ;  and 
die  ye  accordingly." 

So  they  were  fentenced  ro  the  death  of  the 
The  places  crofs.  The  place  ailigned  them  for  ex- 
of  their  ecution  was  that  where  Diabolus  drew 
death  af-  up  his  lafl  army  again!!:  manfoul ;  favc 
figned.  only  that  old  Evil-qucftioning  was 
hanged  at  the  top  of  Bad-ftreet,  juft  over  againil 
his  own  door. 

When  the  Town  of  manfoul  bad  thus  far  rid 
A  warrant  themfelves  of  their  enemies,  and  of 
granted  a-  the  troublers  of  their  peace  ;  in  the 
gainjl  chi/-  next  place,  a  Uriel:  commandment  was 
dren of 'Evil- given  out,  that  yet  my  Lord  Willbe- 
queflioning,  will  mould,  with  Diligence  his  man, 
-with  others,  fearch  for  and  do  his  beft  to  apprend 
what  Town  Diabolonians  were  yet  left  alive  in 
manfoul.  The  names  of  feveral  of  them  were, 
Mr.  Fooling,  Mr.  Let-good-flip,  Mr.  Slavifh-fear, 
Mr.  No-love,Mr.  Miftruft,Mr.  Flefh,&  Mr.Sloth. 
It  was  alfo  commanded  that  he  mould  apprehend 
Mr.  Evil-quefrioning'schildrenthat  he  left  behind 
him,  and  that  they  mould  demolilh  his  houfe.  The 
children  that  he  left  behind  him  were  thefe,  Mr. 
Doubt,and  he  was  his  elded  fon;  the  next  to  him  was 
Legal-life,  Unbelief,  Wrong-thoughts-of-Chrift, 
Clip-promife,  Carnai-fenfe,  Live-by-feeling,  Self- 
love.  All  thefe  he  had  by  one  wife, and  her  name 
was  No-hope  ;  ihe  was  the  kinfwoman  of  old  In- 
credulity, for  he  was  her  uncle  ;  and  when  her  fa- 
ther old  Dark  was  dead,  he  took  her  and  brought 
her  up,  and  when  ilie  was  marriageable  he  gave 
her  to  this  old  Evil-queftioning  to  wife. 

Now,  the  Lord  Willbewill  did  put  into  execu- 
lVilibe-jaill\\o\\  his  commiflion,  with  Diligence  his 
puts  his       man.     He  took  Fooling  in  the  Itreets 


The    HOL  Y    W  A  R.  323 

warrant  and  hanged  him  up  in  Warttwit-allcy, 
into  execu-  over  againit  his  own  houfe.  This  Foo- 
(  tion.  '  ling  was  he  that  would  have  had  the 
Fooling  Town  of  manfoul  deliver  up  Captain 
taken.  Credence  into  the  hands  of  Diabolus, 

provided  that  then  he  would  have  withdrawn 
his  force  out  of  the  Town.  He  alio  took  Mr. 
Let-good-  Let-good-flip  one  day,  as  he  was  bufy 
Jlip  taken,  in  the  market,  and  executed  him  ac- 
cording to  the  law.  Now  there  was  an  hondl 
poor  man  in  manfoul,  and  his  name  was  Mr.  Me- 
ditation, one  of  no  great  account  in  the  days  of 
apoftafy,  but  now  of  repute  with  the  befl  of  the 
Town.  This  man,  therefore,  they  were  willing  to 
prefer.  Now  Mr.  Let-good-flip  had  a  great  deal 
of  wealth  heretofore  in  manfoul,  and  at  Emma- 
nuel's coming  it  was  fequeftered  to  the  ufe  of  the 
Prince  ;  this  therefore  was  now  given  to  Mr.  Me- 
ditation, to  improve  for  the  common  good,  and 
after  him  to  his  fon  Mr.  Think-well.  This  Think- 
well  he  had  by  Mrs.  Piety  his  wife,  and  ilie  was 
the  daughter  of  Mr.  Recorder, 

After  this  my  Lord  apprehended  Clip-promife. 
C/ip-pro-  Now,  becaufe  he  was  a  notorious  vil- 
mife  taken,  lain  (for  by  his  doings  much  of  the 
King's  coin  was  abufed)  therefore  he  was  made  a 
public  example.  He  was  arraigned  and  judged  to 
be  niit  fet  in  the  pillory,  then  to  be  whipped  by 
all  the  children  and  fervants  in  manfoul,  and 
then  to  be  hanged  till  he  was  dead.  Some  may 
wonder  at  the  feverity  of  this  man's  punifhment, 
but  rhofe  that  are  honell  traders  in  manfoul  are 
fenfibie  of  the  great  abufe  that  one  clipper  of'pro- 
miiesin  little  time  may  do  to  the  Town  of  manfoul. 
And  truly  my  judgment  is,  that  all  thole  of  his 
name  and  life  mould  be  ferved  even  as  he. 

He  alfo  apprehended  Carnal-fenfe,   and  put  him 


324  fi»  The  HOLY  WAR. 
Carnal-  ^  in  hold  ;  but  how  it  came  about  I  carl- 
fenfe  taken,  not  tell,  but  he  brake  prifon  and  made  \ 
his  efcape.  Yea,  and  the  bold  villain  will  not  yet 
quit  the  Town,  but  lurks  in  the  Diabolonian  dens 
a-days,  and  haunts  like  a  ghoft  honefl  men's  hou- 
fes  a-nights.  Wherefore  there  was  a  proclama- 
tion fet  up  in  the  market-place  in  manfoul,  figni- 
fying,That  whofoever  could  difcover  Carnal-fenfe, 
and  apprehend  him,  and  flay  him,  mould  be  ad- 
mitted daily  to  the  Prince's  table,  and  mould  be 
made  keeper  of  the  treafure  of  manfoul.  Many, 
therefore,  did  bend  themfelves  to  do  this  thing, 
but  take  him  and  flay  him  they  could  not,  though 
often  he  was  difcovered. 

But  my  Lord  took  Mr.  Wrong-thoughts-of- 
IVrong-  Chrift,  and  put  him  in  prifon,  and  he 
thoughts-  died  there,  though  it  was  long  firit  ; 
of-Chrifl  for  he  died  of  a  lingering  confump- 
taken.       tion. 

Self-love  was  alfo  taken  and  committed  to  cut 
Self-love  tody  ;  but  there  were  many,  that  were 
taken.  allied  to  him  in  manfoul,  fo  his  judg- 
ment was  deferred:  but  at  lafl  Mr.  Self-denial  Hood  ' 
up,  and  faid,  if  fuch  villains  as  thefe  may  be  wink- 
ed at  in  manfoul  I  will  lay  down  my  commiilion. 
He  alfo  took  him  from  the  crowd,  and  had  him 
among  his  foldiers,  and  there  he  was  brained. 
But  fome  in  manfoul  muttered  at  it,  though  none 
durfl  fpeak  plainly,  becaufe  Emmanuel  was  in 
Captain  Town.  But  this  brave  act  of  Cap- 
Se If-denial 'tain  Self-denial  came  to  the  Prince's 
made  a  ears  ;  fo  he  lent  for  him  and  made  him 
Lord.  a  Lord  in  manfoul.     My   Lord   Will- 

bewill  alfo  obtained  great  commendations  of  Em- 
manuel for  what  he  had  done  for  the  Town  of 
manfoul. 

Then  my  Lord  Self-denial  took  courage,   and  ' 


The    HOLY   WAR.  .32; 

!Tet  to  the  purfuing  of  the  Diaboloniqg|  with  nr 
,  Live-by-     Lord  Willbewill,  and  theyTook  Liv 
\feeling  jwiby-feeling  and  Legal-life,  and  put  the 
J  Legat-life  in  hold  till  they  died.    But  Mr.  Unbe 
:|  taken*  lief  was  a  nimble  Jack,  him  they  could 

never  lay  hold  of,  though  they  attempted   to  do 
it  often.     He,therefore,and  fome  few  more  of  the\ 
i  fubtileft  of  the  Diabolonian  tribe  did  yet   remain 
J  in  manfoul  to  the  time  that  manfoul  left  off  t 
dwell   any  longer  in  the  kingdom  of  Univerfe 
But  they  kept  them  to  their  dens  and  holes,;  i 
one  of  them  did  appear,  or  happen  to  be  feen  i 
The  peace      any  of  the  ffcreets  of  the  Town  of  man 
vf  Manfoul.   foul, the  whole  Town  would  be  up  i 
She  minds     arms  after  them,  yea,  the  very    chil- 
her  trade,     dren  in  manfoul  would  cry  out  afte 
//Ixxxiii.20.  them  as  after  a  thief,  and  would  wifl 
Phil.  iii.  20.  that  they  might  {tone  them  to  death' 
Prov.  xxxi.  with  {tones.     And  now  did   manfoul 
arrive  to  fome  good  degree   of  peace   and  quiet, 
,    her  Prince  alfo  did  abide  within  her   borders,  her 
captains  alfo  and  her  foldiers  did  their  duties,  and 
manfoul  minded  her  trade  that    me  had  with  the 
country  that  was  afar  off,  alio  {he  was  bufy  in  her, 
manufacture. 

When  the  Town  of  manfoul  had  thus  far  tI 
themfelves  of  fo  many  of  their  enemies,  and  the 
troublers  of  their  peace,  the  Prince  fent  to  them, 
I  and  appointed  a  day  wherein  he  would  at  the 
market-place  meet  the  whole  people,  and  thcr 
give  them  in  charge  concerning  fome  further  mat 
ters,  that,  if  obferved, would  tend  to  their  farther1 
fafety  and  comfort,  and  to  the  condemnation  and 
deftruclion  of  their  home-bred  Diabolonians.  So 
the  day  appointed  was  come,  and  the  townfmen 
met  together  ;  Emmanuel  alfo  came  down  in  his 
chariot,  and  all  his  Captains  in  their  Hate  attend- 
Ee 


*r 


26  The  HOL  Y    WAR. 

ing  of  him^p  the  right   hand   and    on   the  left. 
Then  was  an  O  yes  made    for  filence,   and   after 
.  fome  mutual  carriages  of  love  the  Prince   began, 
and  thus  proceeded. 

"You, my  manfoul,and  rhe  beloved  of  mine  heart, 

Emma-     many  and  great  are   the  privileges    that 

fiuei's       I  have  beftowed  upon  you  ;  I  have  fin- 

fpeecb  to  gled  you  out  from  others,and  have  chofen 

Manfoul.yau  to  my fe If,  not  for  your   worthinefs, 

but  for  mine  own  fake.  I  alfo  have  redeemed  you, 

not  only  from  the  dread  of  my  Father's   law,    but 

from  the  hand  of  Diabolus.     This   I   have   done 

becaufe  I  loved  you,  and  becaufe  I   have   fet  my 

heart  upon  you  to   do  you   good.     I   have   alfo, 

that  all  things  that  might  hinder  thy  way  to  the 

pleafures  of  Paradife  mrght  be  taken    out    of  the 

way,  laid  down  for  thee,  for  thy  foul,  a   plenary 

fansfaction,  and  have   bought  thee  to   myfelf  ;  a 

price  not  of  corruptable  things,   as   of  fllver  and 

!d,  but  a  price  of  blood,  mine  own  blood, which 

freely  fpilt  upon  the  ground  to  make  thee 

:e.     So  I  have  reconciled  thee,Omy  manfoul  ! 

my  Father,  and  interefted  thee  in  the  manfion- 

lies  that  are,  my  Father's  in   the  Royal   city, 

ere  things  are,  O  my  manfoul  !  that  eye  hath 

:  i'ccnt  nor  hath  entered  into  the  heart  of  man 

•  to  conceive. 

4'Be(ldes,0  my  manfoul  !  thou  feeft  what  I  have 
'  done  ;  and  howl  have  taken  thee  out  of  the  hands 
of  thine  enemies,unto  whom  thou  hadit  deeply  re- 
volted from  my  Father,  and  by  whom  thou   waft 
content  to  be  pofTeiTed,  and  alfo  to  be  deftroyed. 
;  I  came  to  thee  flrft  by  my  law,then  by  my  gofpel, 
j  to  awaken  thee,  and  (hew  thee  my  glory.      And 
|  thou  knoweft  what  thou  waft,  what  thou   faidft, 
i  what  thou  didft,  and  how  many   times   thou    re- 
belledft  againft  my  Fathtr  and  me  j  yet  I  left  thee 


The    HOLY    W  A  R.  3*7 

not,  as  thou  feeft  this  day  ;  but  canie  to  thcc,  have  j 
bornethy  manners,have  waited  upon  thee,and, after  j 
all,  accepted  of  thee,  even  of  my  mere  grace  and  I 
favour  ;  and  would  not  fuffer  thee  to  be  loft,  as  1 
thou  moft  willingly  wouldil  have  been.  I  alibi 
comparted  thee  about,  and  afflicted  thee  on  every  i 
fide,  that  I  might  make  thee  weary  of  thy  ways, 
and  bring  down  thy  heart  with  moleftation  to  a 
willingnefs  to  clofe  with  thy  good  and  happinefs;  * 
And  when  I  had  gotten  a  complete conqueit  over] 
thee,  I  turned  it  to  thy  advancage. 

''Thou  feed  alfo  what  a  company  of   my   1 
ther's  hoft  I  have  lodged  within  thy  borders,  cap 
tains  and  rulers,  foldiers  and  men  of  war,  engine; 
and  excellent  devices  tojfubdue  and    bring  dowi 
thy  foes  ;  thou  knowefl  my  meaning,  O  manfoul 
And  they  are  my  fervants,  and  thine  too  manfou 
Yea,  my  defign  of  pofTefling  of  thee   with    the 
and  the  natural  tendency  of  each  of  them,    is  t 
defend,  purge,  ftrengthen,  and  fweeten   thee  f< 
myfelf,  O  manfoul,  and  to  make  thee  meet  form 
Father's  prefence,  blefling,  and  glory  ;  for   tho 
my  manfoul,  art  created  to  be  prepared  unto  tbeft 

"Thou  feeft,  moreover,my  manfoul, how  I  hav 
pailcd  by  thy  backflidings,  and  have  healed  the 
Indeed  I  was  angry  with  thee;  but  I  have  turne 
mine  anger  away  from  thee,  becaufe  I  loved  the 
ftill ;  and  mine  anger  and  mine  indignation  is  a 
ed  in  the  deftruction  of.thine  enemies,  OmanfouL 
Nor  did  thy  goodnefs  fetch  me  again  unto  thee^ 
after  that  I,  for  thy  tranfgreffions,  have  hid  my 
face, and  withdrawn  my  prefence,  from  thee.  The 
way  of  backfliding  was  thine,  but  the  way  and 
means  of  thy  recovery  was  mine.  I  invented  tl 
means  of  thy  return  :  it  was  I  that  made  an  hed 
and  a  wall,  when  thou  waft  beginning  to  turn 
things  in  which  I  delighted  not;  it  was  I  that  ma 


328  The    HOLY    WAR. 

thy  (Veer,  bitter  ;  thy  day,  night ;  thy  fmooth  way, 
thorny  ;  and  that  alio  confounded  all  that  fought 
thy  deftruclion:  itwaslthac  fet  Mr.  Godly-fear  to 
work  in  manfoul:  it  wasl  that  ilirred  up  thy  con- 
fcience  and  underftanding,  thy  will,  and  thy  affec- 
tions, after  thy  great  and  woeful  decay  :  it  was  I 
that  put  life  into  thee,  O  manfoul,  to  feek  me,that 
thou  migheil  find  me,  and,  in  thy  finding,  find 
thine  own  health,  happinefs,  and  falvation :  it  was 
I  that  fetched  the  fecond  time  the  Diabolonians 
out  of  manfoul  :  and  it  was  I  that  overcame  them, 
and  that  deftroyed  them  before  thy  face. 

"And  now,  my  manfoul,  I  am  returned  to  thee 
in  peace,  and  thy  tranfgrefBons  againft  me  are  as 
if  they  had  not  been.  Nor  (hall  it  be  with  thee  as 
fe  in  former  days,  but  I  will  do  better  for  thee  than 
I  Chron.  at  thy  beginning:  for  yet  a  little  while, 
xxix.  28.  O  my  manfoul,  even  after  a  few  more 
*  times  are  gone  over  thy  head,  1  will  (but  be  not 
thou  troubled  at  what  I  fayjtake  down  this  famous 
Town  of  manfoul,  flick  and  ilone,  to  the  ground; 
and  will  carry  the  flones  thereof,  and  the  timber 
thereof,  and  the  walls  thereof,  and  the  duft  there- 
of, and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  into  mine  own 
country,  even  into  the  kingdom  of  my  Father ; 
and  I  will  there  let  it  up  in  fuch  flrength  and 
glory  as  it  never  did  fee  in  the  kingdom  where 
now  it  is  placed.  I  will  even  there  fet  it  up  for 
'my  Father's  habitation  ;  for,  for  that  purpofe  it 
wasatfirft  erected  in  the  kingdom  ofUniverfe;  and 
there  will  I  make  it  a  fpeclacle  of  wonder,  a  mo- 
nument of  mercy, and  the  admirer  of  its  ownmercy. 
There -fhall  the  natives  of  manfoul  fee  all  that  of 
which  they  have  feen  nothing  here  ;  there  mall 
they  be  equal  to  thofe  unto  whom  they  have  been 
inferior  here;  and  there  (halt  thou,0  my  manfoul! 
have  fuch.  communion  with  me,  with  my  Father, 


The    HOLY   WAR.  329 

and  with  your  Lord  Secretary,  as  is  not  poflible 
here  to  be  enjoyed,  nor  ever  could  be,  fhouldft 
thou  live  inUniverfe  thefpaceofa  thoufand  years. 

"And  there, O  my  manfoul !  thou  ihak  be  afraid 
of  murderers  no  more,  of  Diabolonians  and  their 
threats  no  more.  There  fhall  be  no  more  plo'ts, 
nor  contrivances,  nor  defigns  againft  thee,  O  my 
manfoul.  There  thou  fhaJt  no  more  hear  the  evil 
tidings,  or  the  noife  of  the  Diabolonian  drum. 
There  thou  fhak  not  fee  the  Diabolonian  ftand- 
ard-bearers,nor  yet  behold  Diabolus  his  ftandard. 
No  Diabolonian  mount  fhall  be  call;  up  againft 
thee  there,  nor  fhall  there  the  Diabolonian  ftand- 
ard be  fet  up  to  make  thee  afraid.  There  thou 
fhak  not  need  Captains,  enfigns,  foldiers,  and  men 
of  war.  There  thou  fhalt  meet  withnoforrow  nor 
grief,  nor  fhall  it  be  poffible  that  any  Diabolonian 
mould  again  (for  ever)  be  able  to  creep  into  thy 
fkirts,  burrow  in  thy  walls,or  be  feen  again  with- 
in thy  borders,  all  the  days  of  eternity.  Life 
fhall  there  laft  longer  than  here  you  are  able  to 
defire  it  fhould,andyet  it  fhall  always  be  fweetand 
new,  nor  fhall  any  impediment  attend  it  for  ever. 

"There,  O  manfoul,  thou  fhalt  meet  with  many 
of  thofe  that  have  been  like  thee,  and  that  have 
been  partakers  of  thy  forrows  ;  even  fuch  as  I 
have  chofen,  and  redeemed  and  fet  apart,  as  thou, 
for  my  Father's  count  and  city-royal.  All  they 
will  be  glad  in  thee  ;  and  thou,  when  thou  feeft 
them,  fhalt  be  glad  in  thine  heart. 

"There  are  things,  O  manfoul,  even  things  of 
my  Father's  providing  and  mine,  that  never  were 
feen  fince  the  beginning  of  the  world,  and  they 
are  laid  up  with  my  Father,  and  fealed  up  among 
his  treafures  for  thee,  till  thou  fhalt  come,  thither 
to  enjoy  them.  I  told  yon  before,  that  I  would 
remove  my  manfoul,  and  fet  it  up  elfewhere  ;  and 
Ee3 


330  The    HOLY    WAR. 

where  I  will  fet  ir  there  are  thofe  that  love  thee, 
and  thofe  that  rejoice  in  thee  now  ;  but  how  much 
more,when  they  mail  fee  thee  exalted  to  honour  ! 
My  Father  will  then  fend  them  for  you  to  fetch 

Pflxv'"  17  y°U  '  anc*  t,ieir  k°foms  are  chariots 
J'  in.  /'t0  pllt  y0U  =n  .  and  you,  O  my  man- 
foul,  fhall  ride  upon  the  wings  of  the  wind.  They 
fhall  come  to  convey,  conduct,  and  bring  you  to 
that,  when  your  eyes  feem  ore,  that  will  be  your 
defired  haven. 

"And  thus,0  my  manfoul  !  I  have  fhewed  unto 
thee  what  fhall  be  done  to  thee  hereafter,  if  thou 
canft  hear,  if  thou  canft  underftand,  and  now  I 
will  tell  thee  what  at  prefent  muft  be  thy  duty 
and  praclice,  until  I  fhall  come  and  fetch  thee  to 
myfelf,  according  as  is  related  in  the  Scriptures 
of  truth. 

"Firft,  I  charge  thee  that  thou  doft  hereafter 
keep  more  white  and  clean  the  liveries  which  I 
gave  thee  before  my  lafl  withdrawing  from  thee ; 
do  ir,  I  fay,  for  this  will  be  thy  wifdom.  They 
are  in  themfelves  fine  linen,  but  thou  muft  keep 
them  white  and  clean.  This  will  be  your  wifdom 
your  honour,  and  will  be  greatly  for  my  glory. 
When  your  garments  are  white,  the  world  will 
count  you  mine  ;  alio,  when  your  garments  are 
white  then  I  am  delighted  in  your  ways  ;  for  then 
your  goings  to  and  fro  will  be  like  a  flam  of  light- 
ning, that  thofe  that  are  prefent  mull:  take  notice 
of,  alio  their  eyes  will  be  made  to  dazzle  thereat. 
Deck  thyfelf,  therefore,  according  to  my  bidding, 
and  make  thyfelf  by  my  law  flraight  fleps  for  thy 
feet  ;  fo  fhall  thy  King  greatly  defire  thy  beauty  ; 
for  he  is  thy  Lord,  and  worfhip  thou  him. 

"Now,  th:.t  thou  mayfl  keep  them  as  I  bid 
Zecb.xYri.i.  thee,  I  have,  as  I  before  did  tell  thee, 
yude,  v. 2 3.  provided  for  thee  an  open  fountain  to 


<1 

The   HOLY    WAR.  331 

wafli  thy  garments  in.  Look  therefore  that  thou 
warn  often  in  my  fountain,  and  go  not  in  defiled 
garments  ;  for  as  it  is  to  my  difhonour  and  my  dif- 
grace,  fo  it  will  be  to  thy  difcomfort  when  you 
/hall  walk  in  filthy  garments.  Let  not  therefore 
my  garments,  your  garments,  the  garments  that 
I  gave  thee,  be  defiled  or  fpotted  by  the  fiefru 
Keep  thy  garments  always  white,and  let  thy  head 
lack  no  ointment. 

"My  manfoul,  I  have  oft-times  delivered  thee 
from  the  defigns,  plots,  attempts,  and  confpiracies 
of  Diabolus  ;  and  for  all  this  I  afk  thee  nothing, 
but  that  thou  render  not  to  me  evil  for  my  good, 
but  that  thou  bear  in  mind  my  love,  and  the  con- 
tinuation of  my  kindnefs,  to  my  beloved  manfoul,  1 
fo  as  to  provoke  thee  to  walk,  in  thy  meafure,ac- 
cording  to  the  benefit  bellowed  on  thee.  Of  old 
the  facrifices  were  bound  with  cords  to  the  horns 
of  the  golden  altar.  Confider  what  is  faid  to  thee, 
O  my  bleffed  manfoul  ! 

"  O  my  manfoul  !  I  have  lived,  I  have  died,  I 
live,  and  will  die  no  more  for  thee.  I  live  that 
thou  mayft  not  die.  Becaufe  I  live,  thou  fhalt 
Jive  alfo,  I  reconciled  thee  to  my  Father  by  the 
blood  of  my  crofs,  and,  being  reconciled,  thou 
fhalt  live  through  me.  I  will  pray  for  thee,  I 
will  fight  for  thee,  I  will  yet  do  thee  good. 

"Nothing  can  hurt  thee  but  fin  ;  nothing  can 
grieve  me  but  fin  *  nothing  can  make  thee  bale  be- 
fore thy  foes  but  fin.  Take  heed  of  fin,  my  man- 
foul. 

"And  dod  thou  know  why  I  at  firft,and  do  ftill 
fuffer  Diabolonians  to  dwell  in  thy  waljs,  O  man- 
foul ?    It  is  to  keep  thee  wake,  to  try  thy  love, to 
I  make  thee  watchful, and  to  caufe  thee  yet  to  prize 
my  noble  captains,  their  foldiers,  and  my  mercy. 

"It  is  alio  that  yet  thou  mayeft  be  made  to  re- 


: 


332  The    HOLY    WAR. 

member  what  a  deplorable  condition  thou  once 
wall  in.  I  mean  when,  not  fome,  but  all,  did 
dwell,  not  in  thy  walls,  but  in  thy  Caftle,  and  in 
thy  ftronghold,  O  manfoul  ! 

"O  my  manfoul  !  fhould  I  flay  all  them  within, 
many  there  be  without  that  would  bring  thee  into 
bondage  ;  for  were  all  thofe  within  cut  off,  thofe 
without  would  find  thee  fleeping,  and  then,  as  in 
a  moment,  they  would  fwallow  up  my  manfoul. 
I  therefore  left  them  in  thee,  not  to  do  thee  hurt 
(the  which  they  yet  will,if  thou  hearken  to  them, 
and  ferve  them)  but  to  do'ihee  good,  the  which 
they  mod,  if  thou  watch  and  fight  againft  them. 
Know. .therefore,  that  whatever  they  mall  tempt 
thee  to;  my  defign  is  that  they  fhould  drive  thee, 
not  further  off,  but  nearer  to,  my  Father  ;  to  learn 
thee  war,  to  make  petitioning  defirable  to  thee, 
and  to  make  thee  little  in  thine  own  eyes.  Hear- 
ken diligently  to  this,  my  manfoul. 

"Shew  me,  then,  thy  love,  my  manfoul,  and  let 
not  thofe  that  are  within  thy  walls  take  thy  affec- 
tions off  from  him  that  hath  redeemed  thy  foul. 
Yea,  let  the  fight  of  a  Diabol'onian  heighten  thy 
love  to  me.  I  came  once,  and  twice,  and  thrice, 
to  fave  thee  from  the  poifon  of  thofe  arrows  that 
would  have  wrought  thy  death.  Stand  for  me, 
thy  friend,  my  manfoul,  againft  the  Diabolonians, 
and  I  will  ft  and  for  thee  before  my  Father  and  all 
his  court.  Love  me  againft  temptations,  and  I 
will  love  thee  notwithstanding  thine  infirmities. 

"O  my  manfoul  !  remember  what  my  captains, 
my  foldiers,  and  mine  engines,  have  do\ie  for 
thee.  They  have  fought  for  thee,  they  h 
fuffe red  by  thee,  they  have  borne  much  at  thy 
hands  to  do  thee  good,  O  manfoul  !  Hadft  thou 
not  had  them  to  help  thee,  Di  -bolus  hadcei 
made  a  hand  of  thee.     Nourifh   them,   therefore, 


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my  manfoal.  When  thou  doft  well,  they  will  be 
well  ;  when  thou  doil:  ill  they  will  be  ill,and  lick 
and  weak.  Make  not  my  captains  lick,  O  man- 
foul  !  for  if  they  be  fick,  thou  canft  not  be  well ; 
if  they  be  weak,  thou  canft  not  be  flrong;  if  they 
be  faint,  thou  canft  not  be  flout  and  valiant  for 
thy  King,  O  manfoul  !  Nor  mult  thou  think  al- 
ways to  live  by  fenfe  ;  thou  mufh  live  upon  my 
word.  Thou  muft  believe,  O  my  manfoul  !  when 
I  am  from  thee,  that  yet-  I  love  thee,  and  bear 
thee  upon  mine  heart  fqf  £ver. 

''Remember,  therefojfc  O  my  manfoul  !  that 
thou  art  beloved  of  me.  As  I  have  therefore 
taught  thee  to  watch,  to  figftt;  to 'pray,  and  to 
make  war  againft  my  foes,  fo  now  I  co«fnvarrd 
thee  to  believe  that  my  love  is  conftant  to  thee. 
O  my  manfoul  !  How  have  I  fet  my  heart,  my 
love,  upon  thee  !  Watch.  Behold,  I  lay  none 
other  burden  upon  thee  than  what  thou,  haft  al- 
ready.    Hold  fail  till  I  come." 

THE    END. 


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